He discusses the “memory wars” of the 1980s and 1990s which exposed a problematic rift between researchers studying the fallibility of memory and practitioners treating trauma survivors.

We integrate very different periods of our life into one continuous self—from childhood into early adulthood and beyond. How ...

His research focuses on memory loss and how memories are created. He's working with sea snails, fruit flies and human brains to better understand the complexities of long-term memory.

While forgetting is commonly considered a deficit of memory function due to its association with pathological states, an alternative emerging perspective considers forgetting as an adaptive function ...

Procedural memory is a form of long-term memory that enables people to learn and execute tasks. It has been described as a kind of implicit memory: Unlike when a person recalls facts or images ...

The basic reason why math fact fluency matters, cognitive scientists say, is that it frees up brainpower or working memory to do more complex mathematical work—like figuring out how to structure ...

How much RAM do you really need on your gaming laptop? Not as much as you think!