Tag: memory
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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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The human Memory problem.
We may think we know where memory is stored, but we do not. Science has not figured that out yet. We have pinpointed areas of the brain which play a ROLE in the memory formation/ management (like the hippocampus), but we do not know the EXACT place where memories are stored. [see. Francis Crick, "Memory…
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Old data, long gone...
The older the raw data, the harder it is to get your hands on. That’s the perhaps-not-unsurprising message of a new study by a group of ecologists and evolutionary biologists, who set out to track down the authors of 516 papers published between 2 and 22 years ago. In 167 papers published before 2000, 38%…
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Deleting memories to... errrr... I forgot!
Scientists claim that they can use specific drus to block bad memories from forming. They also claim they can erase bad memories! (1) But how can you do that when you do not know how memory works or where memories are stored? (check out the relative "memory" tag in both Harmonia Philosophica portals) How dangerous…
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Remembering. Singing...
A research suggests that our human language came from singing. (1) Music is a kind of an mystery. We like it, but without being able to really say why. As if it reminds us of somethings... Close your eyes. Listen to the music of silence...
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