If you have ever tilted your head to perceive a rotated image, or programmed a smartphone
to remind you of an upcoming appointment, you have engaged in cognitive offloading: the …

How do we remember delayed intentions? Three decades of research into prospective
memory have provided insight into the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in this …

In everyday life, we often use external artefacts such as diaries to help us remember
intended behaviours. In addition, we commonly manipulate our environment, for example by …

Objectives Psychological science has taken up investigations of the effectiveness of
mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) and mechanisms through which people benefit from …

Older adults commonly experience declines in prospective memory, which describes one's
ability to “remember to remember,” and can adversely affect instrumental activities of daily …

Reminders such as calendar entries and digital alerts are highly effective at helping people
remember what they need to do. Recent work has explored the triggers of reminder setting …

The tasks necessary to keep a household running smoothly often go unnoticed and are
referred to as invisible labor. One underlying cognitive construct that may help to quantify the …

Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are used to measure faculty's teaching effectiveness
and to make high-stakes personnel decisions about hiring, firing, promotion, merit pay, and …

Humans have access to both internal memory (information stored in the brain) and external
memory (information stored in the environment). To what extent do we use each in everyday …

Sustained engagement in mentally challenging activities has been shown to improve
memory in older adults. We hypothesized that a busy schedule would be a proxy for an …