In the fields of American history and American studies, there is a concept called a "usable past.” (The term was coined by literary critic and historian Van Wyck Brooks in the early 20 th century.) ...

A new study has revealed that neural inhibition and balanced neural activity in a specific area of the brain is required for ...

Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has been doing exactly that in his lab at MIT, and his new book, How to Change a Memory, looks at what happens when memory becomes something we can actively shape. Ramirez ...

Bloom is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto and the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University. His new book is Psych: The Story of the Human Mind ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...