Articles About memory science
Confirmation Bias: How Your Brain Defends What It Already Believes
The famous experiment behind confirmation bias does not show what it is famous for showing. Once you see why, almost everything downstream changes.
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15 Aug
Interoception: The Body Signals That Shape Thinking Before You Notice Them
Your heartbeat changes what you remember. The finding is real and specific. It also rests on smaller samples and a shakier measuring stick than anyone admits.
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15 Aug
Synesthesia: When Numbers Have Colors and Memory Gets an Extra Handle
For some people a 7 is green and a Tuesday is maroon. What the research says about whether that second layer really helps them remember will surprise you.
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14 Aug
The Glymphatic System: How the Sleeping Brain Flushes Its Own Waste
The brain has no lymph vessels. What it uses instead runs on your heartbeat and switches on at night. Whether sleep really speeds it up is now an open fight.
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14 Aug
Oxytocin and Social Memory: Why the Brain Files People Differently From Facts
Your brain keeps a separate index for people. It runs on one hormone and one narrow strip of hippocampus, and it can fail while other memory stays intact.
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14 Aug
Neuroinflammation: Why Being Sick Makes It Impossible to Think Straight
The mental fog of illness is not your brain breaking down. It is an immune program that makes thinking expensive, and researchers can switch it on and off.
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14 Aug
Hunger and Cognition: What Ghrelin Does to the Hippocampus Before Lunch
Hunger does not simply drain your thinking. It reallocates it, and the memory system everyone treats as hunger's victim is also one of its controllers.
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14 Aug
Pain and Memory: How Chronic Pain Occupies the Working Memory You Need
Chronic pain does not erase your memories. It occupies the attention they have to pass through, and the evidence for that is older than most people think.
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14 Aug
Estrogen and Memory: What the Menstrual Cycle and Menopause Do to Recall
Estradiol moves memory in both directions across a lifetime. The trials that tested replacing it found something nobody expected, and it was not a benefit.
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14 Aug
