These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, according to researchers from the School ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

My husband was recently describing something that happened on a past holiday. It wasn’t a significant event, but it sounded ...

If you ask your friends about their favorite memories, they may mention their first kiss, a wedding day, or perhaps even giving birth to their child. It’s usually an important moment in time. But how ...

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