87. Remembering why we are doing something Sometimes I forget why I'm doing, what I'm doing. Have you ever done that? I'm not just talking about a memory problem, although that's possible too. I have called someone because I want to tell them somethi

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Topics: Famous Americans - Jimi Hendrix; the melting pot metaphor; U.S. state numbers and nicknames; by any stretch of the imagination; to play it fast and loose Words: habit broom ukulele by ear gig stage presence virtuosic to smash suspicious circu

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Music and Verbal Memory 音乐和非文字记忆 Even if you havent touched a piano in years, if you suffered through music lessons as a kid you may have benefited from those lessons in ways you wouldnt expect. When you train on a musical instrument

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Amnesia 健忘症 When we remember something, the neuron s in our brains communicate with each other in a particular way. The chemical and sometimes even structural changes that occur create a pathway called a memory trace. Signals traveling along th

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Have you really benn there before? Many people at one time or another have experienced dj vu. French for already seen, dj vu is a sudden strong feeling that a moment identical to the present one has occurred at some earlier time. To a cognitive psych

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Get It? 明白了吗? Did you ever wonder what occurs inside your body when something funny happens? What is this thing we have in our brains that makes us say ha-ha when someone slips on a banana? One way to find out is to watch the brain laugh. T

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