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Lost in the Shopping Center
You go to the mall to buy one pair of jeans and leave with your jeans plus new shoes, a pretzel, and a couple of magazines. Sound familiar? Watch Marc Fennell of Hungry Beast explain
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Sorry, I Left My Memory in the Other Room
ABC News: Ever forget the reason why you walked into a room seconds after you enter, even though you know you are there for a reason? You stand in the doorway wondering, “I know I
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Why you forgot what you were just doing
msnbc: Have you ever walked into a room and realized you don’t remember what you’re doing there? Yeah, us too. Well thankfully science finally explains why: It’s the doorway’s fault, a new study finds. “When
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Super memory, obsessive behavior: Do they share brain space?
Los Angeles Times: Memory researchers at the University of California Irvine are developing a large collection of remarkable research subjects, who themselves maintain a remarkably large collection of memories. They are people with “highly superior
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Lunch break: Experience vs. memory
The Washington Post: Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel laureate and one of the founders of behavioral economics, explains in a TED talk how our “experiencing selves” and “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently: Read the whole story
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Memory Lapse
The New York Times: A while ago, I was going through my files when I came across a cache of partly crumbled photographs. One was of me holding the sight box for the M252 mortar
