News tagged with remembering

Child's 'mental number line' affects memory for numbers

As children in Western cultures grow, they learn to place numbers on a mental number line, with smaller numbers to the left and spaced further apart than the larger numbers on the right. Then the number line changes to become ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research shows why we forget to take our medicine, and what we can do about it

For many people, remembering to take a daily medication can be the difference between life and death. Yet, people forget all the time. Now a landmark study from North Carolina State University has found that changes in daily ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Recent research on memory/learning

Are we over estimating remembering and underestimating learning?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 06, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Negative emotion more likely to cause false memories, researchers find

Remembering negative events tends to result in more false memories than remembering neutral events, according to Cornell professor of human development Charles Brainerd.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Use texting as reminder

There are lots of things you hear while you're out that you might want to remember later, such as the name of a movie to rent, restaurants to try or shows to program on the DVR.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Switchboard in the brain helps us learn and remember at the same time

The healthy brain is in a constant struggle between learning new experiences and remembering old experiences, a new study in this week's PLoS Biology reports. Virtually all social interactions require the rapid exchange of new ...

Biology /

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0