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Greater Working Memory Capacity Benefits Analytic, But Not Creative, Problem-Solving
Anyone who has tried to remember a ten-digit phone number or a nine-item grocery list knows that we can only hold so much information in mind at a given time. Our working memory capacity is
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Would You Rather Win Silver Or Bronze? (Be Careful What You Wish For)
NPR: Both athletes were U.S. swimmers, both were dripping wet after finishing an Olympics final, and both had just won medals. The first said, “It’s not my normal specialty. … We went out there and
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Lolo’s No Choke
TIME: Choke. The word just sounds so noxious, really. Never mind its ties to suffocation and death. Just say it: choke. Athletes in particular would like to strangle the scribe who first applied such an
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George A. Miller, a Pioneer in Cognitive Psychology, Is Dead at 92
The New York Times: Psychological research was in a kind of rut in 1955 when George A. Miller, a professor at Harvard, delivered a paper titled “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two,” which
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New Research on Cognition from Psychological Science
Read about new research on cognitive processes – including processes involved in learning, theory of mind, and cognitive control – published in Psychological Science, Current Directions in Psychological Science, and Perspectives on Psychological Science. Cognitive
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When We Forget to Remember – Failures in Prospective Memory Range From Annoying to Lethal
A surgical team closes an abdominal incision, successfully completing a difficult operation. Weeks later, the patient comes into the ER complaining of abdominal pain and an X-ray reveals that one of the forceps used in
