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Minds Hate
Confusion
H
uman beings rely more heavily on learning than any other
species that has ever existed.
“Learning is the way animals and human beings acquire
new information,” says a scientist at Columbia University’s
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior. “Memory is the way
they retain that information over time.”
“Memory is not just your ability to remember a phone
number,” says experimental psychologist Lynne Reder, who
studied memory at Carnegie-Mellon University. “Rather, it’s a
dynamic system that’s used in every other facet of thought
processing. We use memory to see. We use it to understand
language. We use it to find our way around.”
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