Upon retrieval, fear memories are rendered labile and prone to modification, necessitating a restabilization process of reconsolidation to persist further. This process is also crucial for modulating ...

Many students think that ramming information into their brain over and over again is the best way to learn it. But studying the same information over and over again has its limits. Recent advances in ...

Many psychologists have believed that testing is good for memory, but only for the exact thing you are trying to remember: so-called "target memory." In a new study, researchers set out to test ...

In schools across the U.S., multiple-choice questions such as this one provoke anxiety, even dread. Their appearance means it is testing time, and tests are big, important, excruciatingly unpleasant ...

Antigen retrieval techniques are used to enhance signals in immunohistochemical testing. What are antigen retrieval methods needed? Fixation is a key step performed during immunohistochemistry to ...