Memory is the faculty by which the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information. It is a record of experience that guides future action. Memory encompasses the facts and experiential details ...

It turns out, according to a compelling new study, that cells in your kidneys and tendons can remember, meaning organs and ...

In a new co-authored book, Professor and Chair of Psychology and Neuroscience Elizabeth A. Kensinger points out some surprising facts about how memories work Explaining the science behind memory and ...

the current framework in the psychology field for this process divides episodic memory into two different branches: recollection, which is our ability to recall a memory in its entirety ...

but how it is remembered – the visual quality of the memory,” said Ritchey, who conducted the study with Boston College Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Kensinger and post-doctoral researcher Rose ...

False memories are much harder to implant than previously claimed by memory researchers and expert witnesses in criminal ...

A new analysis challenges long-standing claims about the ease of implanting false memories, often cited in court cases to discredit witnesses.

NSSR Alumnus Alin Coman (photo credit: Princeton University) Coman was first exposed to the field of collective memory as an undergraduate psychology student at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, ...

Often when witnesses allege repeated abuse, they are asked to recall details of an instance of the repeated abuse. To do this, forensic interviewers will focus children’s attention on the first or ...

Yiren Ren, a psychology researcher at Georgia Institute ... which analyzed the connections between music, emotion and memory. They developed a 3-day episodic memory task with separate encoding ...