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Need to remember something? Think of the dentist or dead cats
MSNBC: If you want to remember new information, looking at photographs that stir up negative emotions may do the trick, suggests new research from Psychological Science. Yeah, we know that sounds counterintuitive — but it
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What Do We Pay Attention To?
U.S. News & World Report: Once we learn the relationship between a cue and its consequences—say, the sound of a bell and the appearance of the white ice cream truck bearing our favorite chocolate cone—do
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Memory training improves intelligence in some children, report says
Los Angeles Times: Training a child to hold a whole cluster of items in his or her memory for even a short time may feel like trying to hold a wave on the sand. But
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How our brains make the most of recalling bad memories
Irish Times: CAN NEGATIVE emotions help memory? It seems they can, under certain circumstances, according to a new study published in Psychological Science. Researchers asked students to study lists of Swahili words and their translations
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Understanding the gift of endless memory
CBS News (60 Minutes): Enter Dr. James McGaugh, a professor of neurobiology at the University of California Irvine, and a renowned expert on memory. Dr. McGaugh is the first to discover and study superior autobiographical
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Viewing negative emotion-laden images can boost memory
Yahoo Singapore: Washington, June 19 (ANI): A new research has suggested that witnessing a negative and shocking image enhances the retention of everything that one learns before seeing them. Researchers at Washington University in St.
