Is iron stronger than copper? When data and theories tell different stories about forgetting

We forget. Whether we trade the name of a fish for the name of a student, or whether we eventually forget the name of the U.S. President, the loss of information from memory is nearly always unavoidable. The reasons that underlie forgetting are, however, still debated. One putative mechanism that has attracted considerable attention is the idea […]

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Processing Gefühle in your second language

Currently the EU is officially working and speaking in 24 different languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. Growing up in such an environment by necessity leads to a great number of people speaking more than just […]

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When other people’s minds are within your grasp: Motor cognition of theories of mind

Humans are social beings and by and large we understand each other. In particular, we have a sense of how others are feeling and what others might be thinking or what information they have access to. If your spouse calls you on the phone to ask whether you can find the wallet that they forgot […]

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The good, the better, and the awesome of #psGranada16

The Granada meeting has drawn to a close after an intense and action-filled three days, and a very brief recap of the highlights seems in order, especially for the social (media) aspects. I think most attendees would agree with me that the meeting was organized to a nearly mind-boggling degree of perfection. With more than […]

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Periscoping #psGranada16

As the Psychonomic Society gathers in Granada to for the 2016 International meeting, we were thinking of the people that can’t make it. Fortunately, with modern social media apps like Periscope, we can bring Psychonomics to you. If you are attending the meeting and you have a mobile phone, you can Periscope (or otherwise live stream) […]

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