The study of event perception and memory in everyday activities addresses how individuals transform the continuous stream of daily experience into compact, meaningful units. This process, often ...

The way we perceive events can be distorted by our expectations, leading to a quick and inaccurate reshaping of our memories. Our memories can be reshaped within seconds to fit our expectations, ...

Recent research suggests that repeated "replays" of episodic memories—i.e., memories of personal episodes from our past—can help improve our ability to visually distinguish between scenes, faces, and ...

Memory and perception seem like entirely distinct experiences, and neuroscientists used to be confident that the brain produced them differently, too. But in the 1990s neuroimaging studies revealed ...

Human perception thresholds can improve through learning. Here we report findings challenging the fundamental 'practice makes perfect' basis of procedural learning theory, showing that brief ...

As the time-honored tradition goes, many lovebirds may be seeing red this Valentine's Day. The color of blood and fire, red has long been synonymous with intense emotions, such as love, passion, ...