Memory for people's names can be improved through the application of a small electric current to the scalp according to new research.

Nine and Ten year old children who are physically fit have bigger hippocampi and better memories than those who are not physically fit, according to researchers from the University of Illinois.

Atkinson and Shiffrin's Multistore Model of Memory suggests that there are three separate memory stores, Sensory Memory (sometimes called the 'sensory store'), Short Term Memory (STM) and Long Term Memory (LTM). Each store has a different duration, capacity and mode of encoding (the way that information is stored - e.g., visual, acoustic, semantic).

Resource of the Week: Psychology Press Podcast This week's resource is the Psychology Press podcast.

Animated Multistore Model This week’s A level psychology resource of the week is an animation of the multistore model.

Chunking Works for Toddlers Too New research from Lisa Feigenson and Justin Halberda at The Johns Hopkins University shows that  chunking as a method of improving memory may be an inborn, rather than a learned strategy: even 14 months olds in their study showed increases in working memory capacity when toys were grouped in conceptual categories.

Sigmund Freud suggested that traumatic events are forgotten because they are hidden from our conscious awareness, or repressed; Brown and Kulik (1977) found that highly emotional events, such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy are often vividly remembered (although this has been widely disputed); now, research published in the Journal of Consumer Research suggests that people tend to underestimate the intensity of the actual emotions if they are mixed, rather than happy or sad.