How children and their families benefit psychologically from seasonal traditions
Why we remember our youth as one big hedonistic party
Our selective memories prioritise those exciting early memories
Why kids genuinely can’t wait until Christmas
A child’s developing memory makes the world wondrous and slow, but an adult’s reliance on routine speeds everything up
Why there’s no place like home for the holidays
Can you love a place like you love people?
How we think about our past experiences affects how we can help others
Beware rumination: it interferes with our ability to feel empathy for others
Smartphone apps help those with brain injuries, and everyone else’s memory too
Research suggests apps simply free our minds to focus on other things - rather than making our memories lazier
Why you forget things you were sure you would remember
We are easily tricked into wrongly believing we will recall particular information
The psychological benefits – and trappings – of nostalgia
Reflecting on times past can help people cope with the present
How you keep things ‘in mind’ over the short term
Working memory is central to our functioning but it ebbs and flows over our lifespan
What you can do to avoid Alzheimer’s Diseasevideo
Neuroscientist and author Lisa Genova on what research suggests we can do to keep dementia at bay
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September 15 2016
