Memory-based cognition depends on both the ability to remember specific details of
individual experiences and the ability to combine information across experiences to …

This best-selling textbook, written by award-winning educator and past president of the
American Psychological Association, Diane F. Halpern, applies theory and research from …

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on
human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divided into three sections …

How separate yet related episodes of experience are associated in memory is a major
question in cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. Adults and children both integrate …

An adaptive memory system is one that allows us to both retrieve detailed memories as well
as generalize knowledge about our past, the latter termed memory generalization and is …

Building conceptual knowledge that generalizes to novel situations is a key function of
human memory. Category-learning paradigms have long been used to understand the …

Semantic memory—general knowledge of ideas and concepts—includes generalization
processes that support inference. Episodic memory, on the other hand, preserves the …

Current artificial systems suffer from catastrophic forgetting during continual learning, a
limitation absent in biological systems. Biological mechanisms leverage the dual …

Extracting shared structure across our experiences allows us to generalize our knowledge to
novel contexts. How do different brain states influence this ability to generalize? Using a …

What are the boundaries that limit expansion of semantic knowledge across development?
One striking contender is the necessity of a prompt to integrate and self-generate new …