Research suggests that sleep deprivation both before and after encoding has a detrimental
effect on memory for newly learned material. However, there is as yet no quantitative …

Modern life causes a quarter of adults and half of teenagers to sleep for less than is
recommended (Kocevska et al., 2021). Given well-documented benefits of sleep on memory …

We consider six myths regarding mistaken beliefs about psychological processes
(perception, memory, judgment) shaping legal evidence, and we offer research to debunk …

The perceived replication crisis and the reforms designed to address it are grounded in the
notion that science is a binary signal detection problem. However, contrary to null …

Familiar words come with a wealth of associated knowledge about their variety of usage,
accumulated over a lifetime. How do we track and adjust this knowledge as new instances of …

The episodic context account (Gaskell et al., 2019) proposes that the act of language
comprehension gives rise to an episodic discourse representation, and that this …

Sleep is critical for memory, but research indicates that eyewitness identification may be an
exception. We conducted three experiments to assess the effect of self-reported sleep …

Testimonial evidence in the form of verbal accounts by victims, witnesses, and suspects
plays a critical role in investigations and judicial proceedings, often serving as the only …

Eyewitness memory represents an inherently applied research problem, wherein scholars
have increased public awareness of the problem of mistaken eyewitness identification and …

This study aimed to investigate the synchrony/asynhrony effect on eyewitness memory. Forty-
four participants (24 evening-types and 20 morning-types) performed, individually, two …