The enactment effect is the phenomenon that physically performing an action represented
by a word or phrase (eg, clap, clap your hands) results in better memory than does simply …

Healthy aging is associated with intact familiarity, whereas recollection, usually supporting
associative memory, is attenuated. Accordingly, associative memory shows a stronger age …

We investigated age differences in memory for spatial routes that were either actively or
passively encoded. A series of virtual environments were created and presented to 20 …

Memory for series of action phrases improves in listeners when speakers accompany each
phrase with congruent gestures compared to when speakers stay still. Studies reveal that …

Episodic memory strongly declines in healthy aging, at least partly because of reduced
abilities to create and remember associations (associative memory) and to use efficient …

How do students learn? It depends. While we have been investigating how people learn for
a reasonable length of time, there is still much to be learned about how we learn. However …

Dual-process theories of recognition propose that two independent processes, familiarity
and recollection, contribute to successful recognition memory. During the process of healthy …

Episodic memory strongly declines in healthy aging, at least partly because of reduced
abilities to create and remember associations (associative memory) and to use efficient …

Familiarity, emotionality, motor activity, memorability, and vividness of visual imagery ratings,
on 7-point scales, were collected for 536 Spanish action-related sentences, including a …

Memory mostly concerns actions we perform, imagine, or observe: what we ate for lunch,
where we walked to, who we interacted with. The worldliest common question asked while …