Armed with your new knowledge about memory, you'll find some of the computer ads you see a bit less beguiling.

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Recent animal studies have shown that stimulating the entorhinal cortex improved the growth of brain cells in adult mice and appeared to enhance memory for locations and spatial knowledge.

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As digital media has become the main means of recording and transmitting knowledge today, The Memory of the World Programme is committed to raising awareness and building capacity to address issues affecting digitization and digital continuity while developing digital preservation strategies that are sustainable and globally applicable.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

That training to think, react and do includes not just conceptual knowledge but muscular and sensory memory -- and starts the moment we're born.

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They use knowledge and patterns that they already know to encode information in their long-term memory.

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With printed books, knowledge became more portable and capable of stowage, eliminating the need for the vaunted Art of Memory.

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