Yes, some of these are fun! Here are neurology and brain scientists' tips to "exercise" this super organ—your brilliant brain ...

In some episodes of the TV series Sherlock Holmes starring Benedict Cumberbatch, it is possible to observe the main character using a mnemonic technique which he calls “mind palace.” In this technique ...

In some episodes of the TV series Sherlock Holmes starring Benedict Cumberbatch, it is possible to observe the main character using a mnemonic technique which he calls “mind palace.” In this technique ...

‘Invoking a memory palace involves picturing some structure or place in your mind, and linking items you want to remember with specific locations around that place.’Illustration: Guardian Design; ...

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Most people have trouble remembering where they put their car keys, or if they turned their oven off. And yet an astonishing few can memorize entire decks of cards and long strings of random numbers.

There are few people in the world who remember everything they’ve ever read, heard or experienced, and from all accounts, they find it a curse, not a blessing. Most of us recall enough to get by, and ...

"I need to go to my mind palace…" S. Holmes, Hound of the Baskervilles (BBC, 2012) In the BBC's crime drama series Sherlock (a modern take on the classic Victorian-era stories of Sir Arthur Conan ...

The making of a memory champion, it turns out, is not so different from the making of any other great athlete. To triumph in sport, athletes sculpt muscle and sinew and lash them together with head ...