Memory & Cognition

Cognition is the work involved in thinking, learning, and remembering. Memory is a big part of that work, from keeping a number in mind long enough to type it to recalling something that happened years ago.

Here you'll find entries on working memory, long-term memory, and the ways we take in and retrieve information. Other topics explain why we forget, mix up sources, or find an old answer getting in the way of a new one. The testing effect is the finding that trying to recall something can help us remember it later.