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Science & Tech News tagged with memory

Fancy Memory Sticks
Science & Tech  (tags: fancy, usb, stick, memory )

Veljko
- 213 days ago - bad-time.com
Phillips Electronics in collaboration with Swarovski made the 'Active Crystal' collection of USB memory. These are really fancy.
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Does Music Have a More Powerful Effect on Memory Than Images, Words, or Smells?
Science & Tech  (tags: music, brain, memory )

Jean
- 475 days ago - dailygalaxy.com
Remember that great Stones' ballad you heard on your first date with that first great love? Well, despite music's importance to our lives, very little is known about the memories and emotions that are often evoked when hearing a piece of music from our pa
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IBM Software Acts as Human Memory Backup: Pensieve
Science & Tech  (tags: ibm, memory, pensieve, magic, life, memories, forgotten, amazing, invention )

Cissy
- 493 days ago - computerworld.com.au
Ever try to remember who you bumped into at the store a few days back? Or exactly what the company president said at the morning meeting? Well, you're not alone. And IBM researchers are working on software that just may help you better recollect all the
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Major Step Forward In Understanding How Memory Works
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, humans, interesting, memory, alzheimer's disease )

Jan
- 592 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Our ability to remember the objects, places and people within our environment is essential for everyday life, although the importance of this is only fully appreciated when recognition memory beings to fail, as in Alzheimer's disease.
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Brain Researcher Shedding Light on Learning, Memory
Science & Tech  (tags: scientist, neurobiology, studies, brain, disease, gene, hippocampus, memory, neuronal, neurone, alzheimer )

J.
- 622 days ago - my.mcg.edu
'You form a basis to not only understand how biology works,but also how therapeutic strategies should be developed.It's a very systematic,large-scale effort to understand the brain.'One goal is understanding biology gone wrong,as it does in Alzheimer's.'
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Picture This: Scientists Could Take Photos of Your Memories and Dreams | the Daily Mail
Science & Tech  (tags: science, imagination, dreams, subconscious, memory, discovery, brain, technology, innovation, picture, machine )

Cissy
- 644 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Scientists have developed a mind-reading technique which could one day allow them to take pictures of memories and dreams. By comparing brain activity scans, they were able to correctly predict which of 120 pictures someone was focusing on in 90 percent
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Why Time Seems to Slow Down in Emergencies
Science & Tech  (tags: time, scientists, volunteers, research, neuroscience, memory, memories, brain, danger, emergencies, perception, experiment, interesting )

Laurel
- 728 days ago - livescience.com
In The Matrix, the hero Neo could dodge bullets because time moved in slow motion for him during battles. Indeed, in the real world, people in danger often feel as if time slowed down for them.
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Humans Are Not the Only Sapiens
Science & Tech  (tags: humans, homo sapiens, animals, chimps, memory, thinking )

Eduardo
- 729 days ago - hindu.com
We were taught at school and college that of all animals, it is us humans who are the thinking ones, the sapient or wise ones. Now we realize how anthropocentric this claim has been. The title we have given ourselves, homo sapiens, is a trifle arrogant.
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Revolutionary Gadget Could Help Alzheimer's Sufferers Improve Their Memory By 90%
Science & Tech  (tags: gadget, Alzheimer disease, memory, Microsoft, patients )

Eduardo
- 729 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Scientists researching Alzheimer's disease have invented a camera memory aid which can improve sufferers' natural recall by up to 90 per cent. The SenseCam, funded by technology giants Microsoft, is a small device worn by the patient to record details.
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Partial Recall: Why Memory Fades With Age
Science & Tech  (tags: humans, aging, memory, cognitive skills, white matter, forebrain )

Eduardo
- 735 days ago - sciam.com
The older crowd's performance on memory and cognitive skill tests correlated with white matter loss. The white matter appears to fray more over time in the forebrain than in the brain's rear.
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Elephants Use Mental Maps to Track Family Members
Science & Tech  (tags: Elephants, memory, scent, urine, relatives )

Eduardo
- 736 days ago - newscientist.com
Elephants really do have good memories - at least when it comes to keeping tabs on where their own relatives are. They are able to recognize up to 17 female family members based on cues they pick up from sniffing their urine.
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Chimp Beats Humans In Memory Game
Science & Tech  (tags: chimp, human, memory )

Ben
- 737 days ago - blogmyway.org
Think you're smarter than a 5th-grader? 5-year-old chimp beats college kids in computer game. (Dec. 3). Copyright 2007 The Associated Press
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Chimps Outperform Humans at Memory Task
Science & Tech  (tags: chimps, humans, brain, memory, cognition, numbers, research )

Eduardo
- 737 days ago - newscientist.com
Young chimps can beat adult humans in a task involving remembering numbers, reveals a new study. It is the first time chimps - and young ones, at that - have outperformed humans at a cognitive task.
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Don't Forget to Back Up Your Brain
Science & Tech  (tags: brain, memory, memories, computer, surrogate memory, science, scientists, future, research, technology, interesting )

Laurel
- 746 days ago - mindpowernews.com
Want Your Entire Life Recorded onto a Hard Drive? They're working on it...
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Emotional Recall Is in Your Genes
Science & Tech  (tags: genetic variants, human, science, medicine, memory, emotion, trauma, receptor )

Eduardo
- 863 days ago - newscientist.com
Your ability to recall emotional events is governed by a common variation in a single gene. The genetic variant is related to enhanced emotional memory, but also appears to predispose people to stronger traumatic memories when something terrible happens.
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