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After reading a set of words, your memory for the words will be tested through a simple, implicit memory task. Unlike other, explicit memory assessments, you will not be asked whether you remember any of the words. Instead, your ability to quickly identify the words while they are being revealed behind a cloud of dots serves as a measure of memory. Test like these have been used in different studies as a way to assess memory without making participants aware of the nature of the test. 
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Today researchers at the University of Cambridge launch what could be the world’s biggest ever memory experiment.
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(Medical Xpress) -- An interesting study conducted by Polish researchers Agnieszka Sorokowska, Piotr Sorokowski and Andrzej Szmajke, of the University of Wroclaw, has found that people are able to guess a person’s type of personality to a...
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Do you put your toilet paper roll on so it rolls over or under?
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“There’s kind of this common idea that too much knowledge can be a hindrance to creativity,” Huber says. It might be a child or an outsider who comes up with a brilliant new way to solve a problem, for example. Maybe it’s because experts know too much that they’ll stick with a familiar idea—like a familiar word—rather than coming up with something new. “To be creative, you need to use the knowledge related to the problem but not be biased to give the same answers that work for other problems.”
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - After years of predictions that the $1,000 genome - a read-out of a person's complete genetic information for about the cost of a dental crown - was just around the corner, a U.S.
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New findings could lead to a non-invasive test allowing expecting mothers to learn the sex of their baby as early as the first trimester.
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Researchers test a famous ethical dilemma called the "trolley problem" in a very real setting. Christie Nicholson reports
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