Psychology says people who keep keys, phones, purse on the same place every day aren't simply following a routine without ...

Knowing the status of a relationship, as well as the current state of the world, depends on the ability to track changes.

An intriguing new study shows positive cognitive effects for older people playing an instrument for the first time.

Most people have experienced the moment at least once: you lock the front door, start walking away, and suddenly feel the ...

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, ...

The emotion that appears when mothers look through old family photographs is often described as nostalgia, but nostalgia ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...

Retrieval, the act of accessing information from memory, is one of the most important aspects of human learning and remembering 1. Information that is encoded and stored but not retrieved has little ...