Long-Term Memory Retrieval
How stored knowledge is accessed and brought back into awareness. Covers retrieval cues, recall versus recognition, and interference at retrieval.
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How stored knowledge is accessed and brought back into awareness. Covers retrieval cues, recall versus recognition, and interference at retrieval.
Studies LTP as a cellular model of memory, focusing on Hebbian plasticity and its molecular machinery.
Magnetoencephalography and neural dynamics is the study of the brain's magnetic fields and the millisecond scale activity that underlies cognition, perception, …
A mood disorder characterized by persistent sadness, anhedonia, fatigue, and cognitive disturbances lasting at least two weeks and impairing daily functioning. …
Study of how children and adolescents acquire numerical, arithmetical, and mathematical reasoning skills.
Mathematics anxiety disrupts numerical reasoning, working memory, and quantitative learning from early schooling into adulthood, covering origins, assessment, …
Changes in subjective experience produced by meditation, hypnosis, and psychoactive substances. Covers neural correlates and effects on attention and …
The processes by which labile new memories become stable and integrated into long-term storage. Includes synaptic and systems consolidation and sleep-dependent …
The study of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination directed at people with mental illness, including public, self, and structural stigma. Research examines …
A psychodynamic treatment for borderline personality disorder that strengthens the capacity to understand one's own and others' mental states.
Awareness and monitoring of one's own cognitive processes, including judgments of learning and feelings of knowing. Covers metacognitive control and …
Investigation of psychological change from roughly ages six to twelve, including the development of logical reasoning, self-concept, and peer competence.
Research on psychological growth and adjustment during middle adulthood, including generativity, career peaks, caregiving roles, and physical changes.
Study of psychological factors in military settings, including combat stress, leadership, selection, and resilience.
Combines mindfulness meditation with cognitive therapy to prevent depressive relapse by disengaging from ruminative thought patterns.
Jon Kabat-Zinn's structured eight-week program teaching nonjudgmental present-moment awareness to reduce stress and chronic pain.
Lithium and anticonvulsant agents used to prevent and treat manic and depressive episodes in bipolar disorder.
Study of how reasoning about right and wrong, moral emotions, and prosocial behavior develop across childhood and adolescence.
The perception of movement and its direction, speed, and trajectory. Includes apparent motion, optic flow, biological motion, and motion-sensitive cortical …
Study of major theoretical frameworks explaining the direction, intensity, and persistence of goal-directed behavior.
A collaborative, evocation-based style for resolving ambivalence and strengthening change motivation in addiction and health behavior.
Study of the emergence and refinement of motor skills across infancy and childhood, including gross, fine, and perceptual-motor coordination.
Covers hierarchical motor pathways from motor cortex and brainstem to spinal circuits that generate skilled movement.
The perceptual organization of musical sound, including pitch, rhythm, harmony, and melody. Covers musical expectation and the cognitive neuroscience of music.
Employs music creation, listening, and improvisation to address emotional, cognitive, and social treatment goals.
A personality disorder characterized by grandiosity, need for admiration, and limited empathy, with grandiose and vulnerable presentations. Research examines …
A neurological sleep disorder of excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations, linked to hypocretin deficiency. …
Helps clients re-author dominant problem-saturated stories, externalizing problems to open space for alternative identities.
How experience reshapes the brain's circuits throughout life, from synapse-level change to large-scale map reorganization, and the implications for learning, …
Explores the syndromes of cognitive decline and disruption - from major and mild neurocognitive disorder and delirium to the dementias, their brain mechanisms, …
Exploring how brain inflammation shapes mood, cognition, and behavior across psychiatric and neurological conditions.
The study of the neural substrates of language. Covers language lateralization, event-related brain potentials, and neuroimaging of language processing.
Brain-stimulation interventions including ECT, rTMS, tDCS, DBS, and VNS for treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders.
Covers the structure and function of neurons, from dendritic integration to axonal output.
Study of brain-behavior relationships and the neural basis of cognitive, emotional, and motor functions.
Study of compliance with explicit commands from authority figures and the situational conditions that promote or inhibit destructive obedience.
The identification and categorization of visual objects. Research covers view-invariant recognition, feature integration, and deficits such as visual agnosia.
A disorder of recurrent intrusive obsessions and repetitive compulsions performed to reduce anxiety. Research investigates its neurocircuitry in …
Studies how striate and extrastriate visual cortex transform retinal input into contours, color, motion, and object perception.
How psychosocial working conditions shape employee health and how organizations protect and restore wellbeing.
Articles on evidence-based programs and principles for reducing reoffending, including risk assessment, treatment models, correctional interventions, and …
Open science and replication cover transparency practices and the reproducibility movement in psychological research.
A substance use disorder characterized by compulsive opioid use, tolerance, withdrawal, and severe social and health consequences. Research covers opioid …
How optimistic and pessimistic thinking styles shape emotions, health, performance, and resilience, including explanatory style, cognitive biases, and …
How people and organizations navigate transitions, covering the psychology of resistance, readiness, leadership, communication, and sustainable transformation.
The psychological bonds that attach employees to organizations and how attachment forms, functions, and fades.
How shared values, norms, and assumptions shape behavior inside organizations, covering national and corporate culture, socialization, fit, change, and toxic …
How employees evaluate workplace fairness and how those judgments shape attitudes, behavior, and wellbeing.
The psychology of ostracism and social exclusion, from reflexive pain to chronic resignation, and their effects on needs, behavior, and health.
Studies oxytocin's influence on attachment, trust, and prosocial behavior across species.