Have you ever struggled with things like "I can't seem to remember people's names" or "I memorized it before the test, but I ...

A recent study by Youngs and colleagues in the UK, published in the August 2021 issue of Psychological Reports, suggests a short mindfulness meditation session can boost visual short-term memory.

Someone once said that memory is fascinating because sometimes we forget what we want to remember, sometimes we remember what we want to forget, and sometimes we remember events that never happened or ...

Eyewitness accounts, when combined with the human proclivity for storytelling, can result in amazing accounts of things that never happened.

Over the past couple of decades, there has been an explosion of research into “false memories”, showing that our memory can be subtly altered by a variety of internal and external factors. Many ...

Memory and attention are intertwined cognitive functions that enable humans to filter, encode and retrieve information from a constantly changing environment. Attention acts as a gatekeeper, ...

He drew a distinction between the facts we learn and the experiences we remember, which he argued are part of what makes us human. By Clay Risen Endel Tulving, whose insights into the structure of ...

These are my complete AQA GCSE Psychology Memory revision notes, covering every specification point for this topic, including types of memory, encoding, storage and retrieval, the multi-store model of ...

Humans have a fascinating ability to recreate events in the mind’s eye, in exquisite detail. Over 50 years ago, Donald Hebb and Ulrich Neisser, the forefathers of cognitive psychology, theorised that ...