Prior research has shown that visual working memory (VWM) performance can be improved via retrospective cues (“retro-cues”) that spatially indicate which item currently being held in working memory will be probed at test. ...

Previous episodic memory studies have found that neural activity preceding a to-be-encoded event can reflect subsequent memory performance. This neural activity is thought to reflect the preparatory engagement of cognitive ...

Prior studies have shown that males and females perform differently on a variety of memory tasks. It is suggested that certain biological factors can lead to sex-related differences in cognitive decline, memory, and learning. ...

Young adults display the negative affect where they pay attention to and remember negative information better than positive information. A similar affect is in observed in individuals with depression. Since depression is ...

It is a known phenomenon that older adults tend to get less sleep and lower sleep quality compared to their younger counterparts, getting worse with age. They also often have difficulty falling asleep, which can be described ...

In this talk I will examine the proposition that age-related memory problems are largely attributable to declines in attentional resources and executive control, and will illustrate the arguments with experimental results ...

Dogma states that memory can be divided into distinct types, based on whether conscious or not, one-shot or incremental, autobiographical or factual, sensory or motor, etc. These distinctions have been supported by ...