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How Forgetting Allows You To Remember — And Be A Better Thinker

A glass head containing a Neural Interface for Memory Restoration sensor developed by DARPA, which reads signals from the brain, stimulating neurons to combat memory loss.
A glass head containing a Neural Interface for Memory Restoration sensor developed by DARPA, which reads signals from the brain, stimulating neurons to combat memory loss. Stacey Rupolo

Our ability to forget helps us to learn, make decisions … and remember a face. This seeming paradox has intrigued writers and led to important new research on how the brain functions.

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Do Sports Make You Smarter? Study Finds Athletes’ Brains Have More Gray Matter

Not running out of gray matter
Not running out of gray matter kris krug

BOCHUM – Intensive sports make our muscles grow – nothing new there. But now clinical neurophysiologists from Germany’s Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB) have shown that sports can change our brain too. For their research, 26 high-performance athletes (half of them practitioners of judo and karate, the other half marathon runners and triathletes), and 12 non-athletes, had […]

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