Most people have experienced the sensation of having a word on the tip of the tongue. A
common assumption is that a major driving force underlying the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) state …

Episodic memory may essentially be memory for one's place within a temporally unfolding
scene from a first-person perspective. Given this, pervasively used static stimuli may only …

Involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) and déjà vu are phenomena that occur
spontaneously in daily life. IAMs are recollections of the personal past, whereas déjà vu is …

Previous research has shown that even when famous people's identities cannot be
discerned from faces that have been filtered with monochromatic noise, these unidentifiable …

A central feature of our waking mental experience is that our attention naturally toggles back
and forth between “external” and “internal” stimuli. In the midst of an externally demanding …

Curiosity during learning increases information-seeking behaviors and subsequent memory
retrieval success, yet the mechanisms that drive curiosity and its accompanying information …

Curiosity during learning increases information-seeking behaviors and subsequent memory
retrieval success, yet the mechanisms that drive curiosity and subsequent information …

In the present study, two experiments were conducted to examine whether thematic relation
can produce recognition without cued-recall effect and whether the direction of the …

Instrumental conditioning (IC) consists in actively learning to approach rewarding stimuli and
to avoid punishing stimuli. This central process for adaptation requires a relatively high …

Familiarity detection is the sense that something has been encountered before, without
being able to recall specifics of the encounter. Viewed as a separable process from recalling …