Research continues to indicate how imperative it is for us to start protecting our memory earlier in life. But when it comes to implicit vs. explicit memory, what’s the difference? Why are they ...

This post is in response to Intuition Rules: Why therapists rarely say "Just pull yourself together!" By Jeremy E. Sherman Ph.D., MPP In my last article I argued that intuition is powerful but not ...

This study examined whether age-related differences in cognition influence later memory for irrelevant, or distracting, information. In Experiments 1 and 2, older adults had greater implicit memory ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 102, No. 4 (Jan. 25, 2005), pp. 1257-1262 (6 pages) We used event-related functional MRI to study awareness of ...

Age alters memory. But in what ways, and why? These questions comprise a vast puzzle for neurologists and psychologists. A new study looked at one puzzle piece: how older and younger adults encode and ...

People with Alzheimer's disease clearly have deficits in explicit memory—the type that can be deliberately accessed. But there is good evidence that some implicit memory processes—those "subconscious" ...

Contradicting the common assumption that accurate recognition reflects explicit-memory processing, we provide evidence for recognition lacking two hallmark explicit-memory features: awareness of ...

Inside Out is not just Pixar's best film since Toy Story 3, it's also the smartest. Mostly set inside the mind of 11-year-old Riley as she moves to a new town, the movie uses colorful characters to ...

We tend to think of human memory as if it's one of those old steel filing cabinets: some information gets stashed inside, and when the time comes, we hope we can find it by flipping through the tabs ...