How telling stories creates memory

Nov 13, 2015 Hypotheses

A recent study at the University of Sussex suggests that repetition is one of the keys to memory. Specifically, the study found that participants who “retold” the narrative of a video reta...

Learning about learning from memristors

May 21, 2015 Hypotheses

  In this recent study out of Beijing University, scientists looked at the “memories” of electronic components (“memristors”, essentially two-terminal whose passage of vol...

The relationship of hippocampus and neocortex in learning

May 11, 2015 Evidence

Studies of the effects of hippocampal lesions imply that learning memory is strongly correlated with the hippocampus. This paper, from James McClelland and Randall O’Reilly of Carnegie Mellon an...

Brain training lacks scientific evidence

May 11, 2015 Hypotheses

“Consistent with the findings in brain-damaged patients, our apparent rational thinking is in fact underpinned by hidden emotional processes.” Both a dismissal of brain-training games and ...

Instant learning results from uncertainty.

May 11, 2015 Evidence

  “If you are uncertain, or lack evidence, about whether a particular outcome was caused by a preceding event, you are more likely to quickly associate them together,” says Sang Wan ...