In some competitive situations, it pays to have a short memory. Banking on recent trends can be a winning strategy when everyone else is stuck in the past, a study to appear in Physical Review E ...

To illustrate what short-term memory is, think about the difficulty in remembering a phone number. After hearing it, you try to make a mental note, but seconds later when you try to dial the ...

Even in such short time scales, human memory may not be completely reliable due to short-term memory (STM) illusions, scientists said. When having strong expectations on how the world should be ...

Stable maintenance of multiple representational formats in human visual short-term memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020; 202006752 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2006752117 ...

The phenomenon, which researchers have dubbed "short-term memory illusions," shows how easily and rapidly humans reimagine experiences to fit our preconceptions, rather than accurately recording ...

Perhaps Mr. Berman has a short or selective memory. During the campaign, Mr. Obama repeatedly pledged to exit Iraq and shift our military resources to Afghanistan in almost exactly the manner he ...

A new study reports a potential link between stress hormones and short-term memory loss in older adults. The study reveals that having high levels of cortisol—a natural hormone in our body whose ...