Neuroscience
- Women Are Better Than Men At Remembering To Remember
Prospective memory is the term psychologists use for when we have to remember to do something in the future – like stopping for milk on the way home from work. It requires not just remembering what to do, but remembering to remember at the right time....
- Childhood Amnesia Kicks In Around Age 7
You could travel the world with an infant aged under 3 and it's almost guaranteed that when they get older they won't remember a single boat trip, plane ride or sunset. This is thanks to a phenomenon, known as childhood or infantile amnesia, that...
- Gordon Bell's Digital Memory
Brain food: the problem with digital memory Digital memory means we can store more than ever before. But isn't it important, sometimes, to forget? Aditya Chakrabortty The Guardian Tuesday 3 November 2009 Read the article...
- Difference Between The Future & The Past?
New Scientist reports on several studies which suggest that there may not be such a difference between the future and the past, at least in our brains. From the free abstract on the New Scientist web site, author Jessica Marshall writes: "IMAGINE your...
- Splogs = Bad News
An article in the September issue of Wired: Spam + Blogs =Trouble answers the question "why do I have to type 'zvtmzu' to post a comment on your blog?!" Because of splogs & link farms. Blech. Jon Gordon on Future Tense interviewed Charles C. Mann,...
Neuroscience
Remembering Not to Remember
The new issue of Wired magazine has an article about a book to be published later this year about remembering and forgetting in the digital age, which sounds like it could be an excellent read.
How would we manage unlimited memory?
- Women Are Better Than Men At Remembering To Remember
Prospective memory is the term psychologists use for when we have to remember to do something in the future – like stopping for milk on the way home from work. It requires not just remembering what to do, but remembering to remember at the right time....
- Childhood Amnesia Kicks In Around Age 7
You could travel the world with an infant aged under 3 and it's almost guaranteed that when they get older they won't remember a single boat trip, plane ride or sunset. This is thanks to a phenomenon, known as childhood or infantile amnesia, that...
- Gordon Bell's Digital Memory
Brain food: the problem with digital memory Digital memory means we can store more than ever before. But isn't it important, sometimes, to forget? Aditya Chakrabortty The Guardian Tuesday 3 November 2009 Read the article...
- Difference Between The Future & The Past?
New Scientist reports on several studies which suggest that there may not be such a difference between the future and the past, at least in our brains. From the free abstract on the New Scientist web site, author Jessica Marshall writes: "IMAGINE your...
- Splogs = Bad News
An article in the September issue of Wired: Spam + Blogs =Trouble answers the question "why do I have to type 'zvtmzu' to post a comment on your blog?!" Because of splogs & link farms. Blech. Jon Gordon on Future Tense interviewed Charles C. Mann,...