Psychology has historically been concerned, first and foremost, with explaining the causal
mechanisms that give rise to behavior. Randomized, tightly controlled experiments are …

Learning and memory are two of the most magical capabilities of our mind. Learning is the
biological process of acquiring new knowledge about the world, and memory is the process …

The parahippocampal cortex (PHC) has been associated with many cognitive processes,
including visuospatial processing and episodic memory. To characterize the role of PHC in …

Age-related cognitive changes often include difficulties in retrieving memories, particularly
those that rely on personal experiences within their temporal and spatial contexts (ie …

Mindfulness meditation practices (MMPs) are a subgroup of meditation practices which are
receiving growing attention. The present paper reviews current evidence about the effects of …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of neurodegenerative disorder, typically
causing dementia along aging. AD is mainly characterized by a pathological extracellular …

To account for dissociations observed in recognition memory tests, several dual-process
models have been proposed that assume that recognition judgments can be based on the …

Attention is a core property of all perceptual and cognitive operations. Given limited capacity
to process competing options, attentional mechanisms select, modulate, and sustain focus …

The ability to recognize a previously experienced stimulus is supported by two processes:
recollection of the stimulus in the context of other information associated with the …

Positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
have been extensively used to explore the functional neuroanatomy of cognitive functions …