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Children develop adult-like image memorability by age 4

The latest Brain Bridge Lab study could have major implications for designing educational materials. By Sarah Steimer The Brain Bridge Lab has b...

Psychology Announcements

Wilma Bainbridge receives funding in the Scialog: Molecular Basis of Cognition initiative

Seven collaborative teams of early career researchers have won funding for projects to advance understanding of the processes that underlie memory and...

Getting to Know Anthropology’s Teaching Fellows

Rafadi Hakim is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist whose research examines how gender, kinship, and religion emerge as relational categ...

The Guardian - The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic

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SSD Welcomes New Faculty for the 2023-24 Academic Year

Christina Brown Assistant Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics Christina Brown is a development economist studying labor and ...

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New research shows brain activity travels between a small number of states based on what we are thinking and paying attention to

The brain state optimal for focus depends on the task, according to a paper from the Cognition, Attention, and Brain LabBy Sarah SteimerUsing function...

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Your Ability to Remember a Work of Art May Be Predictable

A new study from the Brain Bridge Lab used Art Institute of Chicago paintings and a neural network to predict naturalistic memory. By Sarah Steimer...

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Using a foreign language can reduce false memories, study shows

This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read the article on their site here. UChicago psychology study finds novel relationship bet...