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The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces by Jordana Cepelewicz
Published in Quanta Magazine, January 2019
Prominent findings about how our brain codes space, and how similar mechanisms may be responsible for coding other types of memories and abstract concepts.
Remembering What We Learn by Henry L Roediger and Kathleen McDermott
Published in Cerebrum by the DANA Foundation, July 2018
About desirable difficulties, retrieval practice fast and slow learners, summary of fascinating research findings.
Lessons for learning: How cognitive psychology informs classroom practice by Pooja K.Agarwal and Henry L.Roediger III
Published in Phi Delta Kappan, November 2018
To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget by Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Published in Quanta Magazine, July 2018
Microbiological research findings about mechanisms that promote forgetting, may suggest that forgetting is a default mode of the brain.
To Understand Working Memory, Researchers Must Resolve This Debate via Neuroscince News, August 2018
Abut the neurobiological basis of working memory, describing recent findings by prof. Earl Miller from MIT and his colleagues.
Brains as Analog Computers: Brains might compute, but not digitally by Corey J. Maley in The Spike by Medium
About the core differences between analog and digital representations and how the distinction clarifies the differences between a brain and digital machines. Broadens the point of view on current advancement in understanding the brain and AI. Beautifully and very clearly explained!
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