A recent study sheds light on how stress impacts memory retention during emotional events, emphasizing that the brain prioritizes crucial information while contextual details often fade away. This ...

In the fields of American history and American studies, there is a concept called a "usable past.” (The term was coined by literary critic and historian Van Wyck Brooks in the early 20 th century.) ...

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

Knowing the status of a relationship, as well as the current state of the world, depends on the ability to track changes.

Memory and attention are intertwined cognitive functions that enable humans to filter, encode and retrieve information from a constantly changing environment. Attention acts as a gatekeeper, ...

Humans have a fascinating ability to recreate events in the mind’s eye, in exquisite detail. Over 50 years ago, Donald Hebb and Ulrich Neisser, the forefathers of cognitive psychology, theorised that ...