Memory problems affect virtually everyone at some point in their daily lives, yet people often feel embarrassed or worried when they experience these perfectly normal cognitive hiccups. The human ...

Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...

Overview. Participants completed daily questionnaires via Qualtrics on their smartphones or computers spanning a 4-week period. The study consisted of four phases: the pre-survey questionnaire period, ...

Our minds have a tendency to latch onto negative experiences more strongly than positive ones. While occasional negative thoughts are a common human experience, persistent ones can trap people in a ...

Wait, what was the name of that actress from the series I watched yesterday? If you also find yourself refreshing Google or the chat again and again to get answers instead of recalling them yourself – ...

Music that evokes an emotional response may influence the specificity of memory recall, new research suggests. Investigators found that participants who were shown a series of images of everyday items ...

Scientists are gradually understanding more about how and when music therapy works. One of the known uses of music in therapy is for Alzheimer’s and dementia therapy, where listening to music can help ...

We investigated the interaction of episodic memory processes with the short-term dynamics of recency effects. This work takes inspiration from a seminal experimental work involving an odor-in-context ...

Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember ...