Dr. Mark Salter, a consultant psychiatrist, told the BBC: "Baking and cooking are good therapies. They help patients develop planning skills, short-term memories and social skills—lack of which may lead to mental illness."

精神病咨询师马克·索尔特博士告诉英国广播公司：“烘焙和烹饪是很好的治疗方法。它们帮助病人发展计划技能、短期记忆和社交技能——缺乏这些可能会导致精神疾病。”

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Previous research has shown that fetuses can habituate to sounds and that the fetus has a short-term memory of 24-hours, but this study further examined how long these memories can last.

之前的研究表明，胎儿能对声适应并且胎儿有24小时的短期记忆，但这研究进一步检查了这些记忆能持续多久。

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Getting a good night's sleep has long been known to cement the day's memories, moving them from short-term storage into long-term holding, but new research shows that it's not automatic.

长期以来，人们一直认为充足的睡眠能巩固当天的记忆，使短期记忆转化为长期记忆。但一项新的研究表明，这种转化不会自动实现。

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They concentrate on the hippocampus -- part of the cerebral cortex which sits deep in the brain -- where short-term memories become long-term ones.

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Despite the obvious knee-jerk reaction regarding the Maps debacle, it's actually interesting that this particular scenario is yet another example of humans having extraordinarily short-term memories.

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Dr Cathelijne van Heteren from University Hospital Maastricht said the study showed foetuses had both short and long-term memories.

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