A VegOut house column on daily practice and behavior change. Someone in your life still writes their grocery list on a scrap of paper before leaving the house. Maybe it is you. And at some point, ...

Extensive practice can rewire the brain so a learned skill runs more automatically, making some forms of true multitasking ...

New psychology findings, discussed by Jessica Tarlov, explain why people forget names right after meeting them, asserting it's not rudeness but a memory encoding issue. Dana Perino shares a memory ...

Instead, we find that fixation timing is more closely tied to memory encoding than to visual processing difficulty: The brain appears to linger to commit information to memory rather than because it ...

A new study from Georgetown University just revealed that your brain is capable of multitasking. It simply needs to be trained to do so. For years, we’ve been told that focusing on two things at once ...

Forming social connections online and via social media reduces how much people engage with and learn from the content posted but significantly boosts their networking performance, according to new ...

Getting older changes our bodies, and our sense of self. Aging can also affect our brain function, especially how our memories work. We might find it harder to recall certain details or remember ...

Fruit of the Loom's logo never had a cornucopia and you didn't have pizza for dinner last Friday. By RJ Mackenzie Published Jan 27, 2026 9:01 AM EST Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have uncovered a previously overlooked role of the hippocampus in shaping memory, revealing how ...

Research my colleague and I have recently published in the Intelligence journal shows there is very good reason to be excited: For many of us, overall psychological functioning actually peaks when we ...

Summary: A new study reveals that intentional memory control—deciding what to remember or forget—is more powerful than emotional influence when forming long-term memories. Participants were more ...