Memory and cognition

Remembering reactions and facts: The influence of subsequent information.

Memory for reactions and judgments about a biographical passage was examined following the presentation of subsequent information relevant to the passage. Experiment 1 demonstra...

INFORMATION THEORY AND STIMULUS‐INDEPENDENT THOUGHT

The production of stimulus‐independent thought (e.g. fantasy and imagery) was measured as a function of the rate at which information was presented to human subjects. Informatio...

Overdependence on degraded gist memory in Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) reduces associative effects on false recognition in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott task, either due to impaired memory for gist or impaired use of gist in...

Advances in Cognitive Science

Meeting of minds: the medial frontal cortex and social cognition

Social interaction is a cornerstone of human life, yet the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition are poorly understood. Recently, research that integrates approaches fro...