Articles About cognitive psychology

For thirty years the advice was to study to learn and not to compete. Then somebody pooled 243 studies and found the opposite pattern in the grades.

A famous 1959 result rests on sixty men and one question out of four. Sixty-five years later thirty-nine labs went looking for it again and came back empty.

The most repeated number in memory science was never timed with a stopwatch. It was worked out backwards, from how fast people talk, and it is still disputed.

For a moment your brain holds far more than you can report. The experiments that proved it, why the published numbers clash, and what it means for study.

A 2025 meta-analysis put the method of loci at an effect size of d = 0.88. Here is what the evidence really shows, and where popular advice gets it wrong.

Semantic memory is the brain's invisible encyclopedia, a knowledge store built over decades, and the last form of memory to fall when everything else is forgotten.

How false memories form in a brain built to reconstruct rather than record, and what a century of research reveals about memory's most unsettling flaw.

The two most tested ideas in the science of learning were discovered apart, ignored for decades, and only later found to be stronger together than either is alone.study techniques, memory science, cognitive psychology

A Nobel physicist's habit of explaining hard ideas in plain words became a famous study method. Here is the science behind why it works, and where it fails.