New psychology findings, discussed by Jessica Tarlov, explain why people forget names right after meeting them, asserting it's not rudeness but a memory encoding issue. Dana Perino shares a memory ...

While humans are observing their surroundings, their eyes tend to rapidly shift between different objects, people and details ...

Near-death experiences often show common features. However, according to a new theory, specific aspects of our life also ...

What if Sigmund Freud was onto something that modern neuroscience is only now beginning to explain? A new paper argues that ...

Research on memory, stress and motor learning suggests many police training programs reward short-term performance while ...

Extensive practice can rewire the brain so a learned skill runs more automatically, making some forms of true multitasking ...

It's a fact of life that the electrical activity of neurons will vary during the same task, even when the ultimate outcome is ...

You’ve forgotten a few appointments lately and you find yourself losing track of conversations. Close friends or family may ...

Die Natur erklären wir, das Seelenleben verstehen wir [Nature we explain, but psychic life we understand] ― Wilhelm Dilthey, 1894 When I first started studying psychology, I noticed there were two ...

Summary: Astrocytes, star-shaped non-neuronal cells, serve as active gatekeepers of long-term memory stability. By ...

Working memory is the information we need to access to complete the tasks we’re engaged in right now, and scientists think it ...

The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave ...