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For questions about the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information in the brain. This tag encompasses research all the way from the molecular level in model organisms to abstract mathematical representations, and includes applied learning paradigms and tasks.
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Is it actually helpful to write todo lists?
There is some research that suggests writing a to-do list will help "unclutter your brain." The research is related to the phenomenon known as the Zeigarnik effect.
The basic observation behind the …
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How to measure verbal and visual working memory?
Verbal Working Memory.
A classic way to measure verbal working memory is a reading span task. … Visual Working Memory
Visual/spatial working memory can be tested in a similar way, but with spatial stimuli instead of sentences. One such task is a rotation-span task. …
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Why do we always wake up at the climax of our dreams, even when it is an alarm that wakes us?
This is an established bias of human memory, in which we selectively remember events that confirm our ideas, and neglect the events that disconfirm them. … In this situation, you have the idea that you always wake up at the climax of dreams, so your memory is biased towards times where you actually did wake up at the climax of dreams. …
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