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Our brains hover on the edge of chaos. This is a good thing. Includes fascinating video of chaotic brain simulations.

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A greater awareness therefore of the context in which we acquire a particular piece of information can help improve our ability to remember it later on.

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Researchers have modeled the human mental lexicon as consisting of words that cannot be separated from other words, which may explain why words have many associations, a feature which helps us communicate.

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There may be some neurological truth to those claims that memorizing lists or daily Sudoku encourages mental limberness. Even more importantly, the results lend some support that people in early stages of Alzheimers disease may slow their cognitive declin

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Concomitant longevity means you have more to remember

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Natalie Angier reports from the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste held in San Francisco, including this tidbits about how smells, feelings and memories become so easily and intimately entangled.

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Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth. False beliefs are everywhere, and efforts to dispel misinformation are more difficult than one would expect because of quirky way our brains store memories and continue to mislead us.

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Donald Clark points to ten evidence-based facts about learning.

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The interesting outcome of Pizarro's study shows that people's memory of facts can be distored by changing details about an individual's character.

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Some brains do deteriorate with age. But for most aging adults, much of what occurs is a gradually widening focus of attention and sifting through a clutter of information that makes it more difficult to latch onto just one fact like a name or a number.

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"Evolution has resulted in a series of "good enough" but not ideal adaptations that allow us to be smart enough to invent quantum physics but not clever enough to remember where we put our wallet from one day to the next."

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Why can't we stick to our goals like "I will lose wieth" or "I plan to finish this article before the deadline. "Nice thoughts, but not forumulated in terms that your ancestral, reflecxive brain might understand," says psychologist Gary Marcus. The work a

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Very short-term working memory retains a limited number of high-resolution images for a few seconds, rather than a wider range of fuzzier impressions, as once thought.

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The spacing effect posits that the best time to study something is at the moment you are about to forget it--an insight that is useless in the real world, until Piotr Wozniak introduced SuperMemo.

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If nothing else, this month's National Geographic reaffirms the utter wierdness of human memory. Truth is indeed an illusion.

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Equations become memorable beyond their scientific enquiries that gave birth to them because they also reveal something of the nature of the question itself in all aspects of our lives. "They are like a really good joke the economy of which reveals the st

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