This fascinating article at Scientific American, about human and animal consciousness, contains the following passage: In humans, the short-term storage of symbolic information—as when you enter an acquaintance’s phone number into your iPhone’s memory—is associated with conscious processing. A few years ago, when I was first learning about memory, the example probably would have gone [...]
Archive for January, 2009
The Death of Long Term Memory
Posted in psychology, technology on January 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Contents
Categories
- book reviews (26)
- general science (32)
- horror (10)
- media (24)
- misc (18)
- philosophy (16)
- pictures (8)
- psychology (37)
- real life (31)
- technology (23)
- Uncategorized (37)
- writing (9)
Archives
- January 2012
- October 2011
- July 2011
- May 2011
- March 2011
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- January 2008
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- May 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- November 2005
- October 2005
- August 2005
- June 2005
-
Top Posts