Episodic memory

Studying while listening to music. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The sounds in the background

Hebrew University study: “Speech-matched” background music improved word recall more than silence
How memory works. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Is your memory real?

In an experiment with 421 participants who were required to recall words after a minute and a half and after a day, more than 4,000 “memory justifications” were collected. Despite a decrease in the number of items recalled, the linguistic content and detail of the justifications for the items that were correctly recalled remained the same.