Humans are known to rapidly adapt their mental processes and behavior based on feedback they receive from the world around them. For instance, some past studies have shown that people progressively ...

"It is a poor sort of memory that only works backward.”—Lewis Caroll’s The Red Queen Memory and imagination may be two sides of the same coin. Both our memories and imaginations recreate images of the ...

Usually, forgetting where you put your coffee cup down doesn’t have a major impact on the rest of your life – you can easily retrieve another cup of coffee (and find the other one later, in a cabinet ...