Art students work for years to learn to create good portraits that capture the likeness of a subject. Even among trained artists, it takes a special talent to draw faces accurately. This problem ...

Conventional wisdom suggests memories of past experiences can help us navigate problems in the present. For example, if a friend told you they were having a disagreement with their partner, you might ...

People are more likely to remember information they draw than information they visualize, write, or photograph, a new study published in Current Directions in Psychological Science says. Whereas other ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Most people, when tasked with remembering something important, jot down a note. But a 2018 study published in the journal Experimental Aging Research says there may ...

A child picks up a crayon and begins to sketch a scene from a story, not knowing that this simple act is strengthening the neural pathways responsible for memory. New research shows that children who ...