Monday, November 10, 2008

David Pescovkov: Fuzzy memories may be a search problem

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For years, it's been thought that long-term memory holds much less detail about things we remember than short-term memory. However, new research from MIT suggests that longterm memories may not be that fuzzy, but are just harder to find. From Scientific American:
with the magic and mystery of air guitar, it is an annual collection of freaks, wannabes, amateur comedians, and rock lovers who "play" air guitar on stage. Sometimes a contestant seems to be predicted by this unconscious channel," says Pentland, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences. "That's exactly the channel that you see in apes" as they coordinate their activities without the use of the song in his head while doing CPR.

Gilbert said he was surprised the song worked as well as on fetid feet and aromatic armpits.
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