In a new co-authored book, Professor and Chair of Psychology and Neuroscience Elizabeth A. Kensinger points out some surprising facts about how memories work Explaining the science behind memory and ...

It is a record of experience that guides future action. Memory encompasses the facts and experiential details that people consciously call to mind as well as ingrained knowledge that surface ...

Along with episodic memory, it is considered a kind of explicit memory, because a person is consciously aware of the facts, meanings, and other information that it contains. Semantic memory is key ...

As associate professor of psychology Jennifer Talarico explains in an article from The Conversation, “That might be a handy visual metaphor for memory, but it’s not actually how memory works.” ...