Category: Memory
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Stop remembering. To remember…
A new study has shown how intentional recall is beyond a simple reawakening of a memory; and actually leads us to forget other competing experiences that interfere with retrieval. Quite simply, the very act of remembering may be one of the major reasons why we forget. (1) Stop trying to remember. And you will…
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Travelling back in time with the mind. The past. Death. The beach…
In one important way, we are capable of traveling back in time. Through memory, we can return to childhood, go back to the moment we first fell in love or recall our first professional triumph. Vivid memories that call to mind an experience in deep sensory detail can seem to transport us back to another…
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Water memory. Human prejudice.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is potentially wading into hot water next month when it hosts a meeting set up by Nobelist Luc Montagnier to discuss his controversial research on what has become known as "the memory of water." The afternoon at the agency's Paris headquarters will feature talks about the…
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Edibile knowledge...
Planarian "cannibal" worms eating other trained planarian worms, learn much faster how to behave under certain conditions than other worms who did not eat trained worms! It is like the knowledge of the eaten ones is transferred to the cannibals! (1, 2 - see file "McConnell 1962 _ Planarian worms", 3) This is the startling conclusion…
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False memories. Forget them!
A study suggests we're all susceptible to false memories. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focused on people with highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), who are able to recall highly specific facts about their lives, like what they ate for lunch, going all the way back to their childhood.…
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