The first time I heard "Hey Jude" was while driving home from Lake Tahoe after working all summer in a casino. The story before the song was played was that Paul was found painting the words Hey Jude on a fence somewhere to promote the song.

Quoted: Scientists investigate how our memories of Beatles songs help us tap into the long forgotten events in our lives.

Quoted: Scientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the act of summoning a spontaneous memory, revealing not only where a remembered experience is registered but how the brain is able to re-create it.

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Thought provoking article on the problem of designing for those with severe memory deficits - seems to me there are lessons for design for high-functioning users as well (see comments at end of post).

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New research conducted by brain researcher Avi Karni of the University of Haifa in Israel explores the possibility that naps help lock in sometimes fleeting long-term memories. A 90-minute daytime snooze might help the most, the study finds.

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Maybe the chimps are practicing with Brain Age.

Quoted: Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12993-chimps-outperfor m-humans-at-memory-task.htmlFor the first time, young chimps have outperformed humans...

Pretty amazing. Make sure you check out the videos. Here's one of them:
http://download.current-biology.com/supplementarydata/curbio/17/23/r1004/DC1/mmc7.mpg

Quoted: Clearly, the chimps have the number thing down. So the researchers added an element of spatial memory, as you can see in this movie. After the first digit is touched by the test subject, the remaining numbers are obscured. As that video makes clear, this didn't slow down the chimp significantly. As a final test (shown here), the chimp is only afforded a brief glimpse of the numbers; his success rate didn't budge significantly. In contrast, humans (specifically college students) had a hard time with this test, barely outperforming the mother and losing badly to the young chimp.

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