Our minds have a tendency to latch onto negative experiences more strongly than positive ones. While occasional negative ...

Learning by taking practice tests, a strategy known as retrieval practice, can protect memory against the negative effects of stress, report scientists. Learning by taking practice tests, a strategy ...

Researchers from Kessler Foundation and Children's Specialized Hospital find method can improve learning and memory in this age group with TBI West Orange, NJ. December 3, 2014. Brain injury ...

Every semester, the same ritual repeats itself across campuses worldwide: students armed with highlighters, energy drinks, ...

Sometimes, we search for information in long-term memory and find it—a name, a movie title, or a vivid example to support a general conclusion. Other times, we're unable to recall what we believe we ...

Bennett Schwartz is one of the nation’s leading memory experts, and when I visited him in his office at Florida International University, he was standing at his desk. A soft sunlight crowded the room.

A team of scientists has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving them. A team of scientists from the ...

(MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass., Nov. 24, 2016)--Learning by taking practice tests, a strategy known as retrieval practice, can protect memory against the negative effects of stress, report scientists from ...