This month’s executive function skill is working memory. Executive function skills are brain-based skills that help us “get things done” easily—or not—depending on our particular brain. Working memory ...

We tend to think of human memory as if it's one of those old steel filing cabinets: some information gets stashed inside, and when the time comes, we hope we can find it by flipping through the tabs ...

Think about the last time you studied for an exam. You probably read your notes, went through textbooks, maybe even watched a ...

Researchers have shown for the first time that flipping an epigenetic “switch” in specific memory-holding neurons can directly alter memory strength.

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman made an important distinction between what he called the Experiencing Self and the Remembering ...

Scientists are asking the public to share their most vivid memories to uncover why some moments feel as fresh as the day they happened.

That’s especially true for remembering things you want to do. Psychologists call them prospective memories: remembering to perform a planned action, or recall a planned intention, at some point in the ...

Lonni Sue Johnson’s amnesia is revealing important connections between memory, personality, and consciousness.

The investigation was led by a team of neuroscientists at Anglia Ruskin University who were exploring the connection between ...

A loved can’t recall a recent experience or the name of an actor in the movie they just saw. Are these normal signs of ...

A forensic psychologist, who has interviewed more mass murderers than nearly anyone else in his field, has shared the chilling question one killer posed to him mere hours after his horrific spree. The ...