Tag archives for memory
Posted by On our radar today: Predatory reef fish use sign language to communicate with fellow hunters, researchers have mapped the H7N9 avian flu outbreak’s current locations and its potential spread, and…
Mental Athletes Increase Brain Size in 15th US Memory Championship
Posted by Nicole Glass on March 28, 2012 
Nelson Dellis left Saturday’s US Memory Championship with gold medals around his neck and a trophy in his hand. He had broken new records, memorized 303 random numbers in five minutes, and recited the order of two decks of cards. The second-time champion was living proof that a 28-year old with an average memory can…
A Gorilla Walks Into a Room . . .
Posted by kmantsch on November 30, 2011 
Since 1989 more than 250 convicted criminals have been exonerated based on DNA evidence. About 75% of those exonerations came in cases where eyewitnesses had misidentified the subject or the events. Why are witness accounts so unreliable?
Walk Through a Door and Throw Memories out the Window
Posted by Michael Jourdan on November 21, 2011 
According to a new study, the simple act of walking through a doorway makes people more forgetful.
Pigeons Never Forget
Posted by Michael Jourdan on July 13, 2011 
It turns out that pigeons have an impressive ability to remember people’s faces, and aren’t fooled even when we change our clothes.
Posted by NASA may have to bust out an Enigma Machine to figure out what’s going on with the Voyager 2 probe, the second most distant human-made object in space. Yesterday mission managers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena announced that the craft recently started sending back science data in a format no one on Earth…
