To assess and study human memory, psychologists have so far primarily used tasks that require people to verbally recall objects they previously saw in images, past life events or other types of ...

In Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov reflects on his past with such vivid clarity that people and places seem suspended in time, untethered from specific moments. His recollections evoke the feeling ...

These psychology books reveal how fear, memory, perception, and authority shape our behaviour in surprising ways, helping us see why we act as we do., Books, Times Now ...

The study shows, for the first time in a realistic setting, the role of ripple-type brain waves in memory encoding and storage. A research team from the Faculty of Psychology at the University of ...

In our international survey, 71 percent of ECT patients reported reduced ability to retain new information, and 80 percent ...

There are countless metaphors for memory. It’s a leaky bucket, a steel trap, a file cabinet, words written in sand. But one of the most evocative — and neuroscientifically descriptive — invokes Lego ...

Our brain’s memory center bears a sleek design. A peek into living tissue from human hippocampi, a brain region crucial for memory and learning, revealed relatively few cell-to-cell connections for ...

New research from University of Virginia psychologists has found that "epigenetic clocks"—tools scientists use to estimate a ...

A recent study by the University of Portsmouth has found that focusing on audio alone improves the performance of the ...