If you’ve ever been the person who remembers everyone’s birthday, obscure facts or entire movie scripts after a single watch, you could be tapping into a cognitive superpower — and it’s more valuable ...

SuperAgers are adults over 80 who retain the memory performance of people in their 50s and 60s. Their brains show either resistance to Alzheimer’s plaques or resilience in functioning despite them.

Scientists have discovered that your ability to belt out "In West Philadelphia, born and raised..." isn't just nostalgic ...

A minority of people have hyperthymesia, or highly superior autobiographical memory, so they can remember events in their lives in cinematic detail. While researchers don’t yet know how rare ability ...

Research into why some people have strong memory well into old age suggests that their brains are different from their peers. Some parts of the... Inside The Brains Of People Over 80 With Exceptional ...

Understanding how superior memory works may help to improve memory in the general population and in the memory-impaired, but the specific neural mechanisms behind exceptional memory performance have ...

Scientists studying the brains of so-called “SuperAgers” have discovered a set of significantly enlarged neurons associated with memory. These neurons also appeared more resistant to characteristics ...

Characters claiming to have “photographic memory” on film or in television shows – or even in books – has been fairly common ...