Audrey Shtecinjo/Stocksy And why you can’t wake up when you have to. By Jesse Hicks Life would be much easier if we could toggle the human body’s sleep mode on and off as easily as we do on our phones. But for many people, there’s an inverse relationship to what they want and what they get once they’re under the covers—whether it’s a few extra hours to snooze on a lazy Sunday morning, or the ability to spring out of bed feeling energized and ready for work. Apparently, this holds true even the world’s most Type A athletes, as evidenced by … Continue reading This Is Why You Can’t Go Back to Sleep When You Want To

by Fabian Hutmacher Exploring objects through touch can generate detailed, durable memories for those objects, even when we don’t intend to memorize the object’s details, according to findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “An especially interesting finding was that participants were able to visually identify an object they had never seen but only touched one week before without the intention of memorization,” says researcher Fabian Hutmacher of the University of Regensburg. “This is even more remarkable as the competing objects in the recognition test belonged to the same basic-level category – that is, the previously presented object was … Continue reading Touch Can Produce Detailed, Lasting Memories