Memory

Your ability to remember works of art may be predictable Three actors from the film Ferris Bueller's Day off stand diagonally from each other with their arms crossed. Behind them are several paintings.

Your ability to remember works of art may be predictable

UChicago study finds art has intrinsic memorability

Using a foreign language can reduce false memories, study shows Outline of a human head with a tangle of yellow and blue lines in the "brain." The yellow line leads outside the brain to the left and says "true" while the blue line leads to the right and reads "false."

Using a foreign language can reduce false memories, study shows

UChicago psychology study finds novel relationship between memory and bilingualism

Social media could open doors for studying memory, study finds A person holds up their phone to take a picture during a concert

Social media could open doors for studying memory, study finds

UChicago research uses daily video diaries to map people’s memories

How memorable is your photo? A new tool will give you a score Collage of faces

How memorable is your photo? A new tool will give you a score

UChicago psychologists tease apart what makes images stick in our brains

Can’t draw a mental picture? Aphantasia causes blind spots in the mind’s eye Sheep standing in a field

Can’t draw a mental picture? Aphantasia causes blind spots in the mind’s eye

Why images may appear closer—or farther—than they actually are Car side mirror

Why images may appear closer—or farther—than they actually are

AI studies reveal the inner workings of short-term memory Illustration of brain

AI studies reveal the inner workings of short-term memory

Alison Winter, historian of science, 1965-2016

Alison Winter, historian of science, 1965-2016

Neuroscientists open doors to collaboration

Neuroscientists open doors to collaboration

Acquiring ‘perfect’ pitch may be possible for some adults Piano keys zoomed in

Acquiring ‘perfect’ pitch may be possible for some adults