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Hand a twenty-year-old student a crossword puzzle filled with words like 'Florida,' 'bingo,' and 'wrinkles.' When they finish, they will unconsciously shuffle…
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Grandpa can recount the exact weather during the moon landing but burns the toast every morning because his prospective memory is failing. While retrospective…
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Grandma isn't ignoring the bad times; her brain has just systematically filtered them out. As people age and realize their time is limited, their memory…
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Our internal calendar is operated by a completely incompetent archivist. The telescoping effect causes people to perceive recent events as being far older…
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What surprisingly simple psychological trick can actually raise the measured IQ scores of average students?
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You might think you are a present, engaged human being, but science says you are zoning out 30% to 50% of the day. Mind-wandering is your brain's default…
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