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 ...

Why do some people remember dreams in vivid detail while others recall nothing at all? A new study explores this mystery, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Everyone wants to learn more quickly, and retain more of what they learn. Intelligence is a business—and a life—superpower.

While there are several theories of memory that describe how learners take in, store, and retrieve information, the simplest theory for our purposes breaks memory into the following parts: For the ...

As associate professor of psychology Jennifer Talarico explains in an article from The Conversation, “That might be a handy visual metaphor for memory, but it’s not actually how memory works.” ...

Short-term memory capacity is a core component of working memory. There are at least two types of short-term memory store. In the following resources, we will explore verbal short-term memory, and ...

Nikola Klassen recently joined the lab in Fall 2020 after completing her undergrad in Psychology at Thompson Rivers University. Throughout her undergrad she was involved in researching memory in both ...