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 ...

Many people assume that some memory decline is an inevitable consequence of getting older. But a select group of older adults, known as "SuperAgers," reach their 80s and 90s while retaining memory ...

Some older people, over 80 years old, maintain mental agility and exceptional memory. How do they manage to preserve cognitive abilities similar to those of people aged 50 or 60? A recent publication ...

Exceptional memory at age 80 and beyond was not due simply to good genes, an analysis of prospective data suggested. The study assessed outcomes for superagers -- people 80 or older with episodic ...

Cambridge scientists are today launching a search to find people who have exceptional memory, as they attempt to understand why some people are much better at remembering than others. Anyone who ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Some people reach their 80s and 90s with memories as sharp as adults ...

True photographic memory as depicted in pop culture doesn’t exist. That’s because too much detail would defeat our ability to make a quick decision based on experience. However, some people have ...

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 ...

Exceptional memory in later life may depend less on inherited Alzheimer's risk and more on the biological and lifestyle factors that help some older adults stay cognitively sharp for decades. Study: ...

Superagers are a group of people age 80 or older with episodic memory at least as good as adults 20 or 30 years younger. Why superagers have exceptional memory still isn't clear after two decades of ...