Habit helps take the mental load off figuring out how to get somewhere. But relying on the familiar can make it harder to ...

It’s lunchtime, and you and your friend are hungry. You venture into the kitchen and make your favorite sandwich—peanut butter and jelly. You assume your friend can make the same thing, but they have ...

A new study shows how the hippocampus binds place and emotion, replaying threat more vividly during sleep to shape memory, ...

Test your visual-spatial ability. Spatial IQ allows you to imagine, manipulate, and navigate objects in your mind. Individuals with a high spatial IQ are able to create and navigate detailed mental ...

Usually, forgetting where you put your coffee cup down doesn’t have a major impact on the rest of your life – you can easily retrieve another cup of coffee (and find the other one later, in a cabinet ...