hippocampus

Human memory is not a passive archive — it’s a efficiency engine, and a set of new experiments summarized in Psychology Today argues that our brains preferentially encode pairs of people who look like they’re interacting, making these dyads easier to recall later than two people who merely...

People remember people who look like they belong together — and a set of new experiments summarized in a Psychology Today writeup argues that social interaction itself is a cue the brain uses to prioritize associative memory, making pairs of faces that appear to be interacting more likely to be...

A study of brain scans show that heavy pot smoking can shrink parts of the brain, according to researchers in the Link Removed due to 404 Error Archives of General Psychiatry. Men who smoked at least five marijuana cigarettes daily for 20 years were shown to have a diminished hippocampus and...