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Sure, I remember that
Marketplace: How accurate are our memories? Not as accurate as we’d like to think, especially when it comes to political events. This week, we look at the work of University of California, Irvine, researcher Elizabeth
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Learning and Memory the Focus of Presidential Symposium at 25th APS Annual Convention
How we learn and remember everything from simple behaviors to complex information has been a major topic of research for psychological scientists for well over a century. At the 25th APS Annual Convention, the Presidential
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People most remember events from late adolescence and early adulthood
The Washington Post: Our 20-somethings are having a moment. They’re inspiring self-help guides, television shows, Tumblrs-turned-handbooks, major newspaper and magazine think pieces on why they do what they do (or don’t do). The current crop
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Aging in Brain Found to Hurt Sleep Needed for Memory
The New York Times: Scientists have known for decades that the ability to remember newly learned information declines with age, but it was not clear why. A new study may provide part of the answer.
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New Insights From Clinical Psychological Science
Read about the latest research and boundary-crossing insights published in Clinical Psychological Science. Suppression-Induced Reduction in the Specificity of Autobiographical Memories Elizabeth Stephens, Amy Braid, and Paula T. Hertel Although research has shown that repeated suppression
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‘B’ is for orange: Synesthesia linked to alphabet magnets in small study
NBC: While Nathan Witthoft was earning his PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he met a woman with color-grapheme synesthesia, a neurological condition where people see letters and numbers in color. Most color-grapheme synesthetes perceive