Chatbots can facilitate ‘cognitive offloading,’ or taking shortcuts when learning. But emerging research on AI and cognitive ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Studies have shown that repeated lies and disinformation can alter reality. Repetition of a fabrication tends to change a myth into something that seems almost real. Years from now how accurately w… ...