A new brain study suggests concentrating too hard won't help your memory. Jan. 24, 2008— -- You're wracking your brain, trying to remember ... patterns were associated with a mental block ...

but couldn't remember when or where they had been introduced to these blocks due to their inability to form new memories. Yup, these blocks sure stick with us. Can a game take over your life?

Next time you meet someone new, repeat their name four times over the next week and you may remember it ... it top of mind.

First, they recorded the neural patterns or ‘codes’ while the study participants were performing a computerised memory task. The patients were shown a simple image, such as a colour block ...

Some researchers thought that neurons called "place cells" would explain these birds' ability to remember ... a memory. So the fact that this seed-hiding behavior has a clear pattern of activity ...

Ranganath directs the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California, Davis, where he's a professor of psychology and neuroscience. In the new book, Why We Remember, he writes about the ...