Working memory is a sort of "mental sketchpad" that allows you to accomplish everyday tasks such as calling in your hungry family's takeout order and finding the bathroom you were just told "will be ...

Exploratory behaviors during learning determine what is studied and when, helping to optimize subsequent memory performance. To elucidate the cognitive and neural determinants of exploratory behaviors ...

Over the past year, my students and I have been collaborating with a Russian colleague, Dr. Daniil D. Barabanov, who works at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis in the Department of Personality ...

This refers to the changes in the physical characteristics of an organism caused by deliberate human intervention in its genetic makeup. Volitional evolution is made possible by recent advances in the ...