An experimental study conducted in China found that a 5-week emotion-targeted mindfulness training improved participants’ ...

To complete tasks that require storing relevant visual details for short periods of time, such as solving a puzzle, reading or comparing different objects, humans leverage their so-called visual ...

A team of researchers has demonstrated that the key to understanding working memory relies not only on what one is storing in memory, but also why. This is the 'working' part of working memory, which ...

Explore 5 classic eye-tracking experiments for memory studies. These foundational paradigms reveal how gaze behavior reflects encoding, retrieval, working ...

Imagine you are a security guard in one of those casino heist movies where your ability to recognize an emerging crime will depend on whether you notice a subtle change on one of the many security ...

Some artworks become part of cultural memory. Even people who don’t actively study art can usually recognise a face, a smile, or an expression that they might have seen somewhere. According to ...