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Topic: Memory

Thinking in a foreign language can help you remember things more accurately, says US study

Emma Charlton - 2 September, 2023

According to the researchers, thinking in a second language uses a different system of reasoning – one that’s less automatic or instinctive.

Personal baggage needs to be discarded to move ahead in life

Vaidyanathan Subramanian - 15 October, 2022

What you can truly leave behind is the love, kindness, affection, goodwill, generosity, and the lasting memories as an individual during your short stay on earth, writes Vaidyanathan Subramanian.

It’s not always your fault when you can’t remember. Sometimes, just blame it on luck

Thor Grünbaum - 12 June, 2022

Working memory is limited, both in its capacity and in the duration of time we can hold information. That’s why people need long-term memory.

Science has proof of how bad diet can lead to bad memory

Shiksha Dev - 1 June, 2022

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

If memories don’t get enough ‘likes’, it can change how we feel about them

David Beer - 18 April, 2021

Social media metrics such as Facebook ‘likes’ can negatively impact how people feel about certain memories.

You are what you eat — the connection between memory and our stomach

Uma Naidoo - 1 November, 2020

In ‘The Food Mood Connection’ Uma Naidoo writes about how seeing an ex can make you nauseous, pointing to the connection between your brain and gut.

Is it dementia if I forget a name or a word?

Laurie Archbald-Pannone - 5 September, 2020

Older people wonder and worry about so-called senior moments and the memory loss they perceive in themselves and others

Idea of India wasn’t demolished at Ayodhya. That happened in our ‘liberal’ homes

Rama Lakshmi - 2 August, 2020

The 1992 Babri Masjid demolition was no sudden act. All of our family conversations contributed to the pickaxes that hit the mosque in Ayodhya.

Chess player memory is a myth. This is my trick before matches, writes Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand - 11 December, 2019

When I was younger, I could recall every chess game I played. Now, I often don’t have complete memory of a game I played a week ago.

A fall through a sinkhole on prime Bengaluru property led to discovery of a hidden temple

Tulasi Srinivas - 24 February, 2019

An ancient temple's discovery illuminates the connections between present-day life and the past as a 'place' to be opened, imagined, and inhabited.

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