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How short-term memory works

Why we forget things so quickly ...
Brain researchers long knew that the model for studying memory oversimplified the complex processes that the brain uses to decide what to keep and for how long. A new study demonstrated “a cascade of ...
As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how ...
In the 1920s, a Russian journalist named Solomon Shereshevsky became famous for his extraordinary memory. He could memorize and repeat up to 70 unrelated words, provided they were read about three ...