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APS Past President McGaugh Wins Grawemeyer Award
Psychological scientist James McGaugh, one of APS’s first presidents, has won the prestigious 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, in recognition of his seminal research on the link between emotions and memory. A neurobiology and behavior
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Technology Is Ruining Our Memories—And Also Might Be Making Us Smarter
New Republic: With Facebook and cellphones, we no longer have to remember our friends’ birthdays or their phone numbers. A new study shows how all that forgetting might be a good thing. Saving information on
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International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society May 5–8, 2016 Granada, Spain www.ps2016.org
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Psychonomic Society’s 57th Annual Meeting
Psychonomic Society’s 57th Annual Meeting November 17–20, 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Psychonomic Society’s 56th Annual Meeting
Psychonomic Society’s 56th Annual Meeting November 19–22, 2015 Chicago, Illinois, USA www.psychonomic.org/annual-meeting Keynote Address: Asher Koriat, University of Haifa
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Saving Computer Files Makes Your Human Memory Work Better
The Huffington Post: Saving a computer file appears to improve your human memory, a scientific study suggests. The act of recording something artificially appears to “free up space” in the brain, and make it easier