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While hazy memories are a common side effect of smoking cannabis, a new study has suggested that it can make those memories ...

Memory effect refers to a temporary or permanent loss of capacity in a battery when it’s discharged. Experts don’t totally agree on why this happens or how to keep it from lessening the capacity of ...

Heavy cannabis use could negatively impact certain types of memory, largest study of its kind to date has found. Image credit: Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg/Getty Images. Recent research shows the use of ...

The production effect refers to the robust finding that words read aloud, rather than those read silently, are more effectively encoded and later retrieved. This phenomenon is attributed to the ...

When you encounter new information and want to remember it, the formation of a memory is enormously affected by what happens immediately afterward. The most common problem is that you think of ...