In the fields of American history and American studies, there is a concept called a "usable past.” (The term was coined by literary critic and historian Van Wyck Brooks in the early 20 th century.) ...

Memory is freedom. Consider the recent movie I Care a Lot, in which a woman creates a successful legal guardian company that cons courts into believing senior citizens are senile and unfit to care for ...

Stress exerts complex influences on human cognition, with effects that vary according to its intensity, duration and timing. Acute stress can enhance the consolidation of emotionally salient ...

Understanding emotional memory Temporal order is what gives our memories structure and creates the narrative of our lives.

Amidst the swirling sea of digital images, printed photos stand as steadfast reminders of our personal narratives, preserving ...

Humans have a fascinating ability to recreate events in the mind’s eye, in exquisite detail. Over 50 years ago, Donald Hebb and Ulrich Neisser, the forefathers of cognitive psychology, theorised that ...

Mr. Watters is a journalist and author whose work focuses on psychiatry and social psychology. Most students in psychology and psychiatry programs today are too young to have any firsthand memory of ...