Art Markman, PhD

We often assume that giving people the chance to choose what they are going to do will increase their motivation to do...

For a few decades now, educators have suggested that computers would vastly improve our ability to teach students.   T...

A subtheme in this blog has been the influence of video game play on people’s behavior.   There is an ongoing debate a...

By the time you are an adult, you know a lot about the world.   You know that dogs bark, that computers allow you to c...

Your ability to recall a word or event involves mechanisms that enhance the item you want to remember and suppress com...

It is hard to save money, because we are wired to prefer to do things that are good for us in the short-term over thos...

The brain is an extraordinarily complex organ that we are struggling to understand scientifically. To help us understa...