Harvard cognitive psychologist Daniel Schacter’s work has underpinned a sea change in how we think about memory; namely, that ...

While the underlying mechanism is unclear, neuroscientists theorize saying something out loud separates and distinguishes it ...

Explaining the science behind memory and memory loss—including why forgetting is a crucial property of memory, as well as strategies that help people remember better—is the subject of a new book ...

An argument and the psychology of disputed memory : Short Wave It's not unusual for siblings to quibble over ownership of something — a cherished toy, a coveted seat in the car — or whose ...

Memory is at the heart of cognitive psychology; the branch of psychology that deals with mental processes and their effects on human behaviour. Most of us take memory for granted until the point ...

Controversy surrounding repressed memory—sometimes referred to as the “memory wars”—came to a head in the 1990s. While some believed that traumatic memories could be repressed for years ...

The study randomly assigned participants to watch a 20-minute video of a woman talking about her tumultuous breakup with a man or another topic, like a shopping trip or the ecology of California ...

Listening to familiar music can trigger vivid memories, and new research suggests that it isn't just sentimental lyrics or ...

Week 1 - Memory Processes and Memory Movies: Human memory involves a collection of systems that enable us to remember the past and imagine the future. Films can enhance our understanding of memory by ...

Short-term memory. Your short-term memory is probably a lot shorter than you think. A classic study in cognitive psychology found that participants in a study could only recall 10% of random three ...

What all these different approaches to psychology have in common is a desire to explain the behaviour of individuals based on the workings of the mind. And in every area, psychologists apply ...