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This Is Your Mind on Music
Whether a song prompts you to remember your first dance, or an annoying tune won’t stop buzzing around in your head, there is no doubt that music has unique effects on memory. APS Fellow Carol
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A Wandering Mind Reveals Mental Processes and Priorities
Odds are you’re not going to make it all the way through this article without thinking about something else. In fact, studies have found that our minds are wandering half the time, drifting off to
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Working Memory Dissociates From Linguistic Processing
My name is Janet Cohen Sherman from Massachusetts General Hospital and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention.
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Praise Is Fleeting, but Brickbats We Recall
The New York Times: MY sisters and I have often marveled that the stories we tell over and over about our childhood tend to focus on what went wrong. We talk about the time my
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Daydream Believers: Scientists Ask Why Our Minds Wander
ABC: Zoning out while trying to read this? No offense taken, since all of us do it at least a third of the time that we’re awake. In recent years a number of academicians have
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How Well Do We Really Remember A Crime Scene?
Smithsonian: Imagine that, upon arriving home one day, you spot someone trying to break into your house. When you shout, the thief suddenly flees. Being the vigilante type, you decide to pursue him, racing down