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People easily distracted by their phones perform worse on memory tests

28 October 2020

People who self-report regular media multitasking, such as texting while watching TV, have more lapses in their attention and perform worse in a memory test
Human brains have ‘time cells’ that let us recall when events happened

Human brains have ‘time cells’ that let us recall when events happened

4 March 2020

We have finally found time cells in the human brain – they help explain how we recall when events happened, and they could be a target for Alzheimer’s therapies

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