stackyFACTSWhen faced with two foreign cities, you will always guess the one you have seen on television is bigger. Your mind inherently favors whatever it recognizes, completely ignoring actual geographic facts.
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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 memory is pathetic enough to require environmental crutches. If you study in a specific room, taking the test in a completely different building causes…
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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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If you want to ruin someone's weekend, give them an easy puzzle and rip it away right before they finish. The Zeigarnik effect states that our working memory…
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You cannot remember anything before your third birthday, and no, it is not because nothing happened. As you grew, rapid developmental changes in your mental…
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If you lose your keys after drinking three pots of espresso, you might genuinely need to chug more espresso to find them. Your internal chemical state acts as…
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