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- BigManOnCampus, on 12/03/2008, -2/+74Wouldn't be the first time a scientist told me something of mine is bigger than expected.
- Scira, on 12/04/2008, -2/+66Digg him up if you think his anus is bigger then expected.
- nahsrocketeer75, on 12/03/2008, -1/+42The most amazing finding from this study was ... uh ...uh ...
- ligyron, on 12/04/2008, -0/+20So basically, to improve your memory, try harder to remember
- TunaTheFrog, on 12/04/2008, -3/+21Your mom is bigger and better than scientists expected
- WallsOfPeril, on 12/03/2008, -4/+19Dude, where's my car?
- rupric, on 12/03/2008, -1/+14I saw Bob Grey from Memories Edge speak recent and his whole deal is relating everything you want to memorize to something visual. At the begining he did a thing to remeber the first 10 presidents and an hour later about 80% of the room could still remeber them all in order. So stupid they don't teach that to kids in first grade on.
- nomadofthehills, on 12/04/2008, -1/+11Wait... so tips for memory are to remember where you put them?
1. Remember where the keys are.
2. ????? - chrisaug18, on 12/04/2008, -0/+10Its in the year 2000
- MeatyVitamin, on 12/04/2008, -0/+10It must be your ego.
- thedude42, on 12/04/2008, -0/+9[citation needed]
- RudeTurnip, on 12/04/2008, -0/+9I'd rather kids not be taught to memorize things. Our teacher in 6th grade got on this trip about teaching us all these memory tricks. It was ridiculous...memorizing lots of stuff for the sake of memorizing isn't learning.
Albert Einstein didn't even know his own phone number...he kept it written down. - ted510, on 12/04/2008, -0/+8How many terabytes is our memory?
- Petestreet, on 12/04/2008, -0/+7I have no idea what's going on.
- GeeksSpeakFont, on 12/03/2008, -0/+6yeah there are some visual memories i'd prefer not to remember!
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -2/+8Our memory is infinite. We record everything. It's just a matter of how do you trigger those memories. They all exist.
- Kanidia, on 12/04/2008, -2/+83. Profit.
- lacronicus, on 12/04/2008, -0/+5There was a story on digg a little while back that remembered every event of her life, and after the story ran, they got reports of others who do as well. I'm talking, like, she could remember her first birthday with the same clarity you or i might remember yesterday, if not better.
- Hughsie, on 12/04/2008, -0/+5I suggest you get a new toilet seat then.
- PhoenixAvatar2, on 12/04/2008, -0/+5Samuel Jackson said this back in the 20th century: "English, *****, do you speak it?"
- dhughes, on 12/04/2008, -0/+4 OK come on admit it who chuckles when reading PNAS?
- KibblesnBitts, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3who knows? But remember that an ejaculation has like 6 Terabytes
- MasterQ, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3he forgot to type that
- Iwantawii, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3FTMFA: "But if people’s memory for detailed information is so good, why do most people forget simple things like where they parked their car? Oliva says one key is making an effort to really look. After all, in the study the researchers instructed volunteers to remember as much as they could."
It's as simple as mindfulness, and you can read tons about it online and there are tons of books available on the subject also. The totality of the concept is that people are so lost in their own minds that the present moment enters their awareness only fleetingly. It's a simple concept, but takes effort to master. - organicanagram, on 12/04/2008, -1/+4What a waste of time...
Samuel Johnson said this back in the 18th century: "The true art of memory is the art of attention." - Paulish, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3What has been seen cannot be unseen!
- Firefoot, on 12/04/2008, -2/+5The bigger the better right?
- lornali, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3The world of the unknown is much bigger
- tr1pw1re, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3taking advantage of HD on youtube = Dugg
- palehorse864, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3In the year two-thousaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannd!
- GuitarHeroDenn, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3And then?
- palehorse864, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3And then?
- Ceryn1126, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3Are you sure....?? Just because we havnt found anyone with a full memory doesnt mean its impossible.
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3I think this is a bad idea because it's resulting in the formulation of memories I never had like old men with hairy cracks. Damn you Arionzxv!
- Spoomeister, on 12/04/2008, -1/+4Only because 2 inches is, technically, larger than 1 inch.
- MasterQ, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2comment fail.
- deadapostle, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2I would hate to be remembered because that would mean I'd have to have been dismembered.
- SPLATBlacK, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2This is not new info - it is well known that if you take a visual snap shot of - where you parked the car - you will remember the location better when it comes time to find the car. It is amazing that people get paid to do this research.
- RaulMuadDib, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2Try to focus on where you left it
- GalacticXenu, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2The amount of stupidity here is staggering. The amount of memory is not "infinite", just for our practical human purposes it is "infinite." I haven't heard a single psychology professor ever claim that memory is infinite, it's not physically possible.
We don't necessarily record everything. Hell, most of what we see and hear goes completely unrecorded and even ignored. There's that famous example of, "which way does Lincoln face on a penny?" We tend to ignore insignificant, regular details like these. It is true, however, that our memories do not seem to ever completely die out; that's one reason when we "forget" something we relearn it faster than we originally learned it. It's also true that how the memory is triggered that is important.
fyngyrz is perhaps the stupidest person here of all. The fact that he was dugg up is testament to the pure stupidity on digg. He provides no evidence for his assertion; he doesn't even give an indication of what he's talking about. I'm suspecting he failed an intro to psych course or perhaps took a psych class at a community college because of the incredible stupidity deep within him. What metaphors are used in psychology? Are you even familiar with behaviorism and how it changed psychology? Are you even familiar with anything psychologists do? I suspect you read Freud and think that's what modern psychology is about; if that is the case, you're even dumber than I suspected because that takes some pretty willing ignorance. - Arionzxv, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2An old man with his hairy crack showing?
- canolde, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2Aude Olivia: "Pay attention!"
Me: "Really? Fascinating." - fyngyrz, on 12/04/2008, -1/+3Not only do they make stuff up for psych classes, they make new stuff up every year. That nonsense is closer to Madison avenue fashion than it is science. Psychology is the trade of making metaphor (usually poor metaphor) and then insisting it is a good model for complex mental activities.
It's first cousin to philosophy, where ideas that can't make it through the scientific method go to die... - RagingIce, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2This is what they teach in Psych classes, but in reality, if our memories are stored physically, no matter how small, there is a finite amount that our brains can handle
- Ceryn1126, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2I may be reading into the article a bit, but it think that the point was that contrary to expectations people remembered the details of the images. From that the scientists concluded that if you want to remember where your keys are then you should focus on specific details about them like how your keys fell when you set them down. When we pass over the details we are more likely to forget. Anyone who has ever studied Kanji would quickly realize that the trick to memorizing abstract visual things is to focus on the details... If you wanna see this in action go look at the first few pages of Remembering the Kanji by James Heisig (the first part is available free on the internet in pdf format to test it)
- jfsimard79, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2This technique has been used since the time of the ancient Greeks, nothing new. But sure, yeah, I wish I had learned it in school dammit.
- rusty0101, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2me: "Yes. Rea... Oooh a butterfly!"
- o0joshua0o, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2I think you might be right. I was meditating frequently in college and I started remembering random things from my childhood that I assumed I'd long since forgotten. Apparently those memories were still archived somewhere in my brain.
- MasterQ, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2Do these visual memories involve a single cup and a pair of girls?
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