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Why People With Anxiety May Have Better Memories
Anxiety may come with a silver lining, a new study suggests: Feeling anxious in a new situation may help you remember it more vividly. Too much anxiety, though, can have the opposite effect, by impairing
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2018 APS Mentor Awards
The recipients of this lifetime achievement award for 2018 are APS Past President Gordon H. Bower, APS Past board Member Lisa Feldman Barrett, and APS Fellow Harry P. Bahrick.
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A Brain Implant Improved Memory, Scientists Report
Scientists have developed a brain implant that noticeably boosted memory in its first serious test run, perhaps offering a promising new strategy to treat dementia, traumatic brain injuries and other conditions that damage memory. The
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Chester A. Arthur Is the Most Forgotten President in U.S. History, According to Science
The third Monday of February, which many Americans know as Presidents’ Day, is supposed to be a time to remember George Washington’s Feb. 22 birthday. And few would argue that the first U.S. president doesn’t
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The First Step Toward a Personal Memory Maker?
Decent memory is a matter of livelihood, of independence, most of all of identity. Human memory is the ghost in the neural machine, a widely distributed, continually changing, multidimensional conversation among cells that can reproduce
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring trends in adolescent media use and depression, memory amplification following trauma, perceptual inference in autism spectrum disorders, and statistical learning applied to diagnostic predictions.
