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Quotation of the Day for July 19, 2012"For example, if you think of the items cat, dog, and zucchini, you don't actually have a full conceptual representation of any of these items in your short-term memory. Instead, you have three links. For example, the first item (cat) leads to the neurons that encode your long-term understanding of a small, carnivorous, and highly manipulative life form that's related to the lion, but has discovered a way to coax many more calories out of a single human." - Matthew MacDonald, in Your Brain: The Missing Manual. (Chapter Five: Memory) Submitted by: Thomas J. Newlin Jul. 11, 2012  |
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