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A team of UChicago psychology researchers used fMRI scans to learn why certain moments carry such lasting power ...

A new study shows that balanced neural inhibition in the hippocampus is crucial for recognition memory, the ability to remember objects we’ve recently encountered.

Rabbi Bruce D. Forman writes “when approached thoughtfully, Christmas can function as a once-a-year invitation for Jews to rest, reset, soften our emotional guard, and rediscover our own ...

A minority of people have hyperthymesia, or highly superior autobiographical memory, so they can remember events in their ...

Katherine Duncan doesn’t experience memory the way most people do. She can’t vividly relive the past or picture it in her ...

Homer’s The Odyssey still shapes modern storytelling, influencing films, novels, and television through its ideas of return, ...

Why do people react so differently to the same situation? Experts decode the neuroscience and psychology behind emotional triggers and behaviour.

This year, psychological scientists tackled profound and varied questions to help us better understand ourselves and the ...

Scientists have created a computer model that aims to mimic the human brain, hoping it might teach us about ourselves.

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