Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember everything. In movies and on TV, viewers repeatedly encounter those with ...

A randomized trial, focused on twins over the age of 50, reports that a daily mix of protein and prebiotics improved performance on a sensitive memory test after 12 weeks. Scientists have been mapping ...

Some animals never forget—and not just in that folksy, "elephants remember everything" way. Across land, sea, and sky, particular creatures are absolute memory machines, storing details that would put ...

Instead of using text tokens, the Chinese AI company is packing information into images. An AI model released by the Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI ...

Despite their prevalence, little is known about how everyday symbols (e.g., !@#$%) are processed in memory. We identified visual and conceptual features of symbols that predict how well they will be ...

The human visual system plays a critical role in high-performance tasks, including sports and activities requiring visuomotor performance. While supercompensation is well-documented in aerobic ...

Introduction Visual perception and visual-motor integration skills are key predictors of handwriting. Children with cerebral palsy often experience difficulties in these areas, which can negatively ...

Scientists have long known that the hippocampus is essential for forming new memories. It helps record where and when things happen. But how it processes what you see—like objects or images—has been a ...

Abstract: Contralateral delay activity (CDA) is a measure used to assess the amount of information being stored in visual working memory (VWM). However, it has also been suggested that CDA reflects ...

Grok 4 and its reasoning-focused counterpart, Grok 4 Heavy, arrived with an immediate sense of ambition, offering multimodal AI designed to handle coding, logic, and perception tasks. In the initial ...