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How Our Ears Inform Our Eyes
Eyewitness identification is an important part of criminal investigations, especially in circumstances where physical evidence is lacking.
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Taking Photos of Experiences Boosts Visual Memory, Impairs Auditory Memory
Choosing to take photos may focus our attention, helping us remember the visual details of our experiences but impairing memory for the auditory details.
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Why it’s so Hard to Remember People’s Names
Research shows that the ability to learn and remember proper names, particularly people’s names, is notoriously more difficult relative to other types of words.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring how we learn natural-science categories and how gestalt grouping influences perceptual averaging in vision.
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More Than Just Faces in a Crowd
Our capacity for remembering items that a
ren’t relevant to the task at hand — such as memory for faces in a crowd — may be greater than previously thought.
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The Apple of the Mind’s Eye
With its simple design, the Apple Inc. logo is one of the most recognizable emblems in the world. But how well do people remember details of the icon? Which way does the leaf point? Is
