Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The science of SuperAgers reveals how some people keep sharp memory at 80+, offering clues to healthier brain aging. (CREDIT ...

Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations—it's a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first few notes ...

Picture this: You’ve celebrated your 85th birthday just a couple of days back, and since it was a grand one, the friends and family are still hanging around — catching up, chatting, laughing, ...

It’s almost that time of year again: long nights in the library, bottomless coffee and a never-ending rainbow of highlighters, flashcards and notes. Most importantly, there’s that nerve-wracking ...

Growing older often comes with the expectation of memory loss. By age 80, the average person recalls far fewer words on standard memory tests than they did in middle age. Scientists long assumed this ...