10+ Best Articles on Memory
The most useful articles on memory from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Memory Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on memory by Refind users in 2023.
- A Good Memory or a Bad One? One Brain Molecule Decides.
- Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’
- Practice Made Perfect: The 10 Keys to Optimize Improvement
- The most successful people are always 'sharpening their memory power,' says brain expert—here's how
- Intelligent People Use This Scientifically Proven Technique to Drastically Improve Their Memory
Videos
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Is technology melting your memory? Or helping it?
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How To Remember Anything Forever-ish
an interactive comic on the art & science of memory
How to Engage Students’ Memory Processes to Improve Learning
Strategies like connecting new information to students’ prior knowledge guide them to store what they’re learning in long-term memory.
How to see a memory
Every memory leaves its own imprint in the brain, and researchers are starting to work out what one looks like.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on memory—all under 10 minutes.
A Good Memory or a Bad One? One Brain Molecule Decides.
When the brain encodes memories as positive or negative, one molecule determines which way they will go.
Practice Made Perfect: The 10 Keys to Optimize Improvement
Getting good at anything requires a lot of practice. But not all practice is equal. Here are ten steps to faster improvement.
«Getting good at anything requires a lot of practice–but not all practice is equal.»
Intelligent People Use This Scientifically Proven Technique to Drastically Improve Their Memory
The mind palace is an ancient Greco-Roman technique that can help you improve your memory. Here's how to use it.
Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’
‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint these days. But is it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do the endless alerts and distractions stop us forming new memories?
«When we’re not attending to an experience, we are less likely to recall it properly, and fewer recalled experiences could even limit our capacity to have new ideas and being creative»
The most successful people are always 'sharpening their memory power,' says brain expert—here's how
Every minute we spend mentally juggling and straining to remember things leave us with less time to get meaningful work done, says neuroscience and brain expert Tiago Forte. He shares his simple, four…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on memory.
Augmenting Long-term Memory
One day in the mid-1920s, a Moscow newspaper reporter named Solomon Shereshevsky entered the laboratory of the psychologist Alexander Luria. Shereshevsky's boss at the newspaper had noticed that…
What It’s Like to Lose Your Short-Term Memory : Longreads
An exclusive excerpt from the new memoir by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee.
Total recall: the people who never forget
The Long Read: An extremely rare condition may transform our understanding of memory
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