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 ...

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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

We investigated the possibility that implicit memory, like explicit memory, can be disrupted by proactive interference. Participants first viewed a list of words, with nontargets in the first half of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that marketers shouldn’t fixate on the number of people who click on ads. According to the research, just seeing an ad on a Web page can impact memory. The findings could have a ...