Does taking photos help memories or hurt them? A new study suggests photographers have better visual memory, while auditory recall suffers.

This suggests those with aphantasia could be using alternative strategies such as verbal representations rather than visual memory.

Shaimaa Masarwa and Olga Kreichman, PhD students in Dr. Gilaie-Dotan's lab, examined what happens to visual memory when participants were asked to look at pictures without knowing anything about a ...

Contrary to previous assumptions, visual short-term memory is not merely based on one kind of information about an object, such as only its colour or only its name. Rather, several types of ...

Some people can't form mental images. Here's what scientists are learning about the condition known as aphantasia—and why it's less rare than you think.

Shaimaa Masarwa and Olga Kreichman, PhD students in Dr. Gilaie-Dotan's lab, examined what happens to visual memory when participants were asked to look at pictures without knowing anything about a ...

Memory Movie in iOS 18.1 lets you use text prompts to create a slideshow out of your photos and videos. Here are some first impressions of this Apple Intelligence feature.

We have both verbal and visual memory. Chances are your visual memory is much stronger, as the video above from Memorize the Periodic Table might demonstrate for you. Mental pictures are more ...

A large body of research indicates that visual cues help us to better retrieve and remember information. The research outcomes on visual learning make complete sense when you consider that our ...

Remember Memrise, the company that uses pictures to help you learn new information quickly using pictures? Well, co-founder Ed Cooke has launched an off-shoot called CatAcademy, which is ...