If you stop to think about it, most of your knowledge can’t be clearly tied to one particular experience.
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Articles on Memory
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Human memory can be trained, but we need different techniques for different kinds of information.
Researchers are developing theories about the purpose of dreams and learning why some people seem to be better at remembering them.
Makeshift memorials are public expressions of private mourning in response to trauma and tragedy.
Some moral frameworks tell us lying is bad. But what if telling someone with dementia the truth could cause them trauma or other harms?
The benefits of HIIT workouts persisted even five years later.
Our research shows the smallest of appearance changes are enough to lead to mistaken identifications in a police line-up. It doesn’t bode well for the justice system.
This phenomenon can help us understand polarisation in society.
Nonna’s pizza dough? A cocktail from a tropical holiday? Food and drinks can evoke feelings of nostalgia and bittersweet memories.
You know that thing with the name? the whatsamajig? the whozeewhatzit?
New research has revealed the role that kinesin, a nanoscopic motor protein, holds in the brain. It helps build dendritic spines, the physical structures that grow from neurons.
Deciphering how neurons talk to each other by reading the brain’s electrical activity has given scientists insights into memory and conditions like epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.
Many medical conditions can affect prospective memory. But so can excessive alcohol use.
Online advertising featuring bright colors, cartoon figures and promotions by social media influencers entice adolescents to try tobacco.
We now have the technology and knowledge to carry out real-time dream experiments with sleeping participants.
This fever-dream Swedish novella demonstrates an incomparable ability to give name to the things we feel but have been unable to find the right words for.
Philosophers have been debating whether we need conditioning to link information from different senses for centuries.
What if we could experience the mind of another person in a video game?
The synchronisation involved in music and dance may be the “active ingredient” in their social bonding effects.
What I teach Harvard Law School students about the importance of opening arguments and how a majority of jurors make up their minds about a case after hearing them.
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