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 ...

A person’s memory is a sea of images and other sensory impressions, facts and meanings, echoes of past feelings, and ingrained codes for how to behave—a diverse well of information.

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 ...

A new neurobiological model of memory is needed that acknowledges the long-held notion prominent in cognitive psychology that memory, at any age, is in essence plastic. Consolidated memories can ...

The lab's simulations with the new model point to learning, rather than capacity, as the real driver of working memory, Soni said. She established this by running the trials on a model without the ...