Innocent people are frequently convicted of crimes on the basis of a witness’s false memories. Emerging science poses a ...

In this episode, Professor Charan Ranganath, director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at UC Davis and author of Why We Remember, reveals how memory truly works. He explains how our choices shape the ...

It’s almost that time of year again: long nights in the library, bottomless coffee and a never-ending rainbow of highlighters, flashcards and notes. Most importantly, there’s that nerve-wracking ...

If you’ve followed this blog from its beginnings in 2009, you’ll know that it’s covered a wide territory. From initial interests in developmental psychology (I started it when I was coming out of a ...

Memory is the process by which information and data is encoded, stored and retrieved. "What did I eat for breakfast this morning?" "Where did I leave my car keys?" "Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?" ...

Charles Don Flores has been facing death for 25 years. Flores has been on death row in Texas since a murder conviction in 1999. But John Wixted, a psychologist at the University of California, San ...