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...

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 ...