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An Unforgettable World Series? Only If Your Team Wins
Miller-McCune: Fans of the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals will be anxiously following every inning of baseball during this year’s World Series. But how much will they remember about the key games five or
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Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: The Importance of Perspective-Taking
Scientific American: I often find myself walking into the kitchen (or the living room or bedroom or wherever), unable to recall why I was going there in the first place. What I do in those
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Concussion testing for student athletes is common, but some question its worth
The Washington Post: If you have a child playing ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer or football this fall, chances are good he or she has taken a computerized examination called ImPACT, for Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and
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Babies as young as six months remember more than we thought
The Star-Ledger: What do babies remember? Adults can’t recall their own infant years, so they often assume babies themselves don’t remember much, either. That assumption is wrong, as researchers at Rutgers University continue to prove.
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Forgetting Is Part Of Remembering
It’s time for forgetting to get some respect, says Ben Storm, author of a new article on memory in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “We need to
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Is High Ability Necessary for Greatness?
Scientific American: As soon as I saw the headline “Research sheds light on origins of greatness”, my interest was piqued. The article is referring to a new paper in Current Directions in Psychological Science, so