It’s well-established that feelings of encoding fluency are positively correlated with judgments of learning, so it’s been generally believed that people primarily use the simple rule, easily learned = easily remembered (ELER), to work out whether they’re likely to remember something (as discuss

Research has shown that people are generally poor at predicting how likely they are to remember something.

Following earlier research suggesting mood affects attention, a new study tries to pin down exactly what it’s affecting.

In the first of three experiments, 132 students were found to gesture more often when they had difficulties solving mental rotation problems.

We’ve all experienced the fading of our ability to concentrate when we’ve been focused on a task for too long. The dominant theory of why this should be so has been around for half a century, and describes attention as a limited resource that gets ‘used up’.

A study involving 171 sedentary, overweight 7- to 11-year-old children has found that those who participated in an exercise program improved both executive function and math achievement.

I’ve talked about the importance of retrieval practice at length, so I’m pleased to report on the latest study to confirm its value.

Brain images of 16 participants in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program, taken two weeks before and after the program, have found measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress.