memory

"To err is human, to forgive is divine, to rectify is wise," said the poet Alexander Pope. Perhaps erring is also wise. According to a team of researchers from the Baycrest Foundation in Toronto (Canada) who have carried out a study on the connection between learning, memory and knowledge, they have concluded that making mistakes in the learning process can benefit memory but only if our replies are close to the correct answer and are not merely random answers.

Add up and go on. A team from the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) has detected a new benefit from cocoa. Although more than cocoa, we should speak of a bioactive substance, flavanols.

According to a study led by Matthias Gruber, a researcher at the University of California, the expectation generated by a certain topic puts the brain in a state that allows it to learn and retain any kind of information.

With menopause, many women complain of having a worse memory, of not being able to remember a word at a certain moment or of not knowing why they were going to a place.

Have you ever eaten something totally new and it tasted awful? Well, no problem, because they have discovered that our brain will be more "forgiving" the next time we test it elsewhere, according to the new study carried out by the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Haifa (Israel) and which is collected in the journal Journal of Neuroscience.

During the schooling stage, there is a crucial time when children stop using their fingers and begin to do head counts. What happens in our brain to acquire this ability?

Previous research has already warned that lack of sleep can cause memory loss. Now, new work suggests that lack of sleep may also increase the chance of having false memories.

In the middle of the month of Ramadan, we discovered that listening to the Quran could be good not only on a spiritual level, but on a cognitive level.