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 break things down into smaller components to make remembering easier. Event Segmentation Theory explains how we do ...

A new study has revealed that neural inhibition and balanced neural activity in a specific area of the brain is required for ...

A new study shows that balanced neural inhibition in the hippocampus is crucial for recognition memory, the ability to remember objects we’ve recently encountered.