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Learning As an Adult Can Be Hard. It’s Even Harder on a Balance Beam.
Learning a new skill as an adult can be daunting, especially something as difficult as gymnastics. One adult gymnastics class shows there are serious benefits to adult learning. … Rachel Wu is an associate professor
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How We Build Semantic Memory
Teaching: Teaching psychology students about semantic memory will inform them how we learn about the world, piece by piece, integration by integration, silently forming the basis for our academic achievements and lifelong curiosities.
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Exploring How Emotion, Aging, and Sleep Impact Memory
Elizabeth Kensinger discusses her research on the role of emotion in memory and changes in the field in an interview with APS President Randi Martin.
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Human Insights for Machine Smarts
Cognitive scientists are helping artificial intelligence think more like us.
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Too Many Connections? How Aging Impacts Memory and Recall
How does the brain’s memory function change as we grow older? What recent discoveries are helping us understand these changes better? In this episode of Under the Cortex, Özge Gürcanlı Fischer Baum welcomes Karen Campbell of Brock
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Language and Memory Are in Focus for Latest Cattell Sabbatical Awards
Gary Lupyan, Tracy Riggins, and Elizabeth Schotter are the latest recipients of the Sabbatical Fund Fellowship from the James McKeen Cattell Fund.
