Why some words may be more memorable than others
Thousands of words, big and small, are crammed inside our memory banks just waiting to be swiftly withdrawn and strung into sentences.
Tag: BRAIN
People were already lonely before the coronavirus pandemic hit. Before COVID-19 stranded folks at home and made getting close to others an unnerving experience, researchers were realizing Americans were… Read More
A man held up a big foam number “8” on its side like an infinity sign and said the object, with its two loops, looked like a… Read More
A young Ernest Hemingway, badly injured by an exploding shell on a World War I battlefield, wrote in a letter home that “dying is a very simple… Read More
We like to think the human brain is special and superior, but even the smallest brains on Earth occasionally show remarkable similarities to our own. Read More
Blind people could ‘see’ letters that scientists drew on their brains with electricity
Scientists sent patterns of electricity coursing across people’s brains, coaxing their brains to see letters that weren’t there.
Large numbers of people around the globe have been forced into solitude due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, social distancing is utterly at odds with our drive for social connection, the… Read More
During the third week of March, as the pandemic coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was beginning to grip the city of Detroit, an ambulance sped through its streets… Read More
Neurologists around the world say that a small subset of patients with Covid-19 are developing serious impairments of the brain. Read More
An artificial intelligence can accurately translate thoughts into sentences, at least for a limited vocabulary of 250 words. Read More