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How short-term memory works

Why we forget things so quickly ...
People viewed the tiny colored squares (in the larger box at the top) for a tenth of a second; then, after 1 second and after 4 seconds, they could usually match the color of the highlighted box to a ...
But new research published in Neuropsychopharmacology suggests the relationship between sleep, caffeine and brain function ...
Past neuroscience and psychology studies have shown that after the human brain encodes specific events or information, it can periodically reactivate them to facilitate their retention, via a process ...
Why is it so easy to remember the lyrics to an old song—but so hard to recall something you just heard or read seconds ago? A ...