Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has been doing exactly that in his lab at MIT, and his new book, How to Change a Memory, looks at what happens when memory becomes something we can actively shape. Ramirez ...

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.) ...

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 ...

Psychological ageing encompasses the dynamic evolution of cognitive, emotional, and social functions as individuals transition into later life. Rather than a unidirectional process of decline, ageing ...

Someone once said that memory is fascinating because sometimes we forget what we want to remember, sometimes we remember what we want to forget, and sometimes we remember events that never happened or ...

Forensic psychology represents an interdisciplinary field in which psychological principles, research methodologies and clinical practices are applied within legal contexts. Its scope spans from the ...