stackyFACTSYour mind is basically a goldfish when listening to long speeches. It abandons everything said at the beginning and desperately clings to the very last sentence just to survive the conversation.
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Telling your brain to delete a file actually works if you try hard enough. Directed forgetting proves you can consciously block specific neural pathways,…
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Your brain is spectacularly bad at planning the future, which is why that pill bottle stares mockingly at you. Prospective memory is the ability to remember…
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Working memory has zero passive storage capacity. To keep a phone number active in your mind, your brain is forced to utilize the phonological loop, silently…
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The serial position curve ensures the middle children of data are aggressively ignored. Lacking the novelty of the first items and the immediate buffer of the…
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Memory savings prove that forgotten data leaves a permanent ghost trail. Even if you cannot consciously recall a subject you learned years ago, the…
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Following memorized turn-by-turn directions is just running a rigid biological script. Route navigation chains a series of physical actions together, meaning…
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