Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has ...

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 ...

Eyewitness misidentifications have long been a source of wrongful convictions, casting doubt on the reliability of memory in the courtroom. But UC San Diego psychologist John Wixted says the story ...

Researchers have known that children often don't focus on tasks and tend to "overexplore" instead of paying attention to what ...

We know our past selves have changed—physically, emotionally, cognitively, interpersonally—but we also know that we are the same person from childhood into early adulthood and beyond. It's easy to ...

Searching for new ways to help my senior patients improve and maintain cognitive functions, I came across an interesting research study from the University of California Irvine (Woo, C. et al. 2023) ...

Professor of Coaching and Positive Psychology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences Want to remember things better as you get older? The secret might be surprisingly simple: focus on ...

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Milan Kundera opens his novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting with a scene from the winter of 1948. Klement Gottwald, leader of ...

The first romance is a milestone in many people's lives, leaving a lasting impression that science and psychology strive to ...