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 ...

Shrek officially turns 20 years old this year and to celebrate the milestone, fans are taking part in a hilarious social media challenge to draw the famous green ogre from memory. The trend kicked off ...

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 ...

Tools for expressing ideas in visual form have been critically important throughout human history. These cognitive tools lie at the heart of some of humanity’s most important inventions, including art ...

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 ...