Richard Addante, who has spent more than a decade researching episodic memory—the cognitive process that involves processing and retrieving long-term memory—has identified a new kind of human memory ...

Researchers build fleeting memory transformers with human-like memory decay, proving memory limits help AI learn grammar ...

Spatial navigation and spatial memory play a central role in our lives. Without these abilities, we would hardly be able to find our way around and it would be difficult to remember past events.

Giving AI a human-like memory limitation may actually help it learn language better. In their new proof-of-principle study, ...

In our modern society, marked by pervasive advertising, extensive consumerism, and impulsive buying behaviours, the examination of goal contagion 1,2 assumes significant pertinence and timeliness.

To support a range of behaviours, the brain must flexibly coordinate neural activity across widespread brain regions. One potential mechanism for this coordination is a travelling wave, in which a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Craig S. Smith, Eye on AI host and former NYT writer, covers AI. Seven years and seven months ago, Google changed the world with ...

We often treat memory like a mental hard drive, assuming that the better we remember details, the better we’re doing in life. We praise people who can ace trivia, recall minute details from decades ...