Toward the end of this global mapping, it would be incomplete not to acknowledge a body of work that, while emerging from my ...

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The federal government’s Boeing E-4B Nightwatch — a military aircraft known, somewhat alarmingly, as the “Doomsday Plane” — ...

A new study shows that the human brain stores what we remember and the context in which it happens using different neurons.

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We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present and prepare for the future.

Psychology researchers used virtual reality and MRI technology to better understand how locations help us encode memories.

Explore how Hollywood's portrayal of extraction in films reflects America's geopolitical strategies and the comforting ...

William James, the father of American Psychology, famously speculated that when a newborn child has her first sensory experience with the world outside of her mother’s womb, it must be “a great ...

Recent advances in cognitive development research have shed considerable light on how children encode, consolidate and retrieve information from their everyday experiences. Studies have demonstrated ...