One of the strangest quirks of memory is that we cannot trust our own intuitions about it. Memory’s underlying mechanisms are largely unavailable to our conscious awareness. Because memory processes ...

Many scientific findings conflict with our gut sense of what is working, making teaching and learning harder. Our perceptions about what’s working in the learning process often conflict with ...

Justin Sung explores how cognitive processes, such as schema theory, can make learning complex concepts more manageable. Schemas are mental frameworks that help the brain organize and interpret ...

Behavior is driven by coordinated activity across a population of neurons. Learning requires the brain to change the neural population activity produced to achieve a given behavioral goal. How does ...

Your intuition is described as a gut feeling or an instinctive understanding that something is about to happen, whether it be good or bad, without conscious reasoning. Though often difficult to trust, ...

Do you make decisions using your intuition—or is it actually “misintuition”? Here’s what researchers are learning about how to make better choices. An illustrated view of the human nervous system, ...

One of the strangest quirks of memory is that we cannot trust our own intuitions about it. Memory’s underlying mechanisms are largely unavailable to our conscious awareness. Because memory processes ...