Gasp! My fourth grade teacher mi... ...gum can impair classic tests of short-term memory — recalling lists of words and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/29/chewing-gum-is-bad-for-your-brain/If you do lots of push-ups, you... ...increase your smarts by improving your memory through certain types of games.... ...turned one of these tests of working memory into a training task for building it up, in the s... ...uilding task. “We see attention and working *strong class="mat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/22/how-to-make-yourself-smarter/You're going about your business... ...ring minds: it's all about your working memory capacity. The researchers asked... ...the end, they measured each participant's working memory capacity, scored by their ability to... ...ion. "People with hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/16/wandering-minds-are-due-to-working-memory-capacity/Memories are not exact recordings of our experienc... ...hat the act of remembering something changes that memory . This finding has led to the development of drugs... ...conjunction with the act of recalling a specific memory , can modify or even erase that memory ! The appli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/19/the-forgetting-pill/(YouTube link) Darren Hayes shares the story of a truly memorable Christmas from his childhood. He grew up to form half the musical duo Savage Garden. The song is the instrumental version of "Bloodstained Heart" fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/23/the-best-christmas-i-ever-had/Is there a "unit" of memory ? Some scientists now think so. Using a me... ...ere's a discrete "quantum" of memory : You're rudely awakened by the p... ...like these, during the transition between one memory...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/29/memory-quantum-lasts-125-milliseconds/If you can Google it, why bother remembe... ...another form of so-called transactive memory , exhibited by people working in group...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/15/are-search-engines-changing-the-way-our-memory-works/Why is it harder and harder for people to remember things as they get older? Is it because their brain is full?Not so, according to a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist:According to a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist, however, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/14/why-its-getting-harder-and-harder-to-remember-things-as-you-get-older/Painted Eggs is a memory game appropriate for the Easter season. You'll be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/22/painted-eggs/The U.S.A. Memory Championship pits mental athletes against each ot... ...ngland, insists they aren't savants, just trained memory experts. Joshua Foer (of Atlas Obscura) became in... ...ua Foer (of Atlas Obscura) became involved in the Memory Championship when he wrote an art...
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