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Mind

People easily distracted by their phones perform worse on memory tests

People who self-report regular media multitasking, such as texting while watching TV, have more lapses in their attention and perform worse in a memory test

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A sugary diet changes gut bacteria and worsens brain function in rats

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We can see when your brain forms a memory by watching you move

Mind

We can see when your brain forms a memory by watching you move

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Time for a rhyme

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Time for a rhyme

Regulars

We really do relive experiences from waking life when we sleep

Mind

We really do relive experiences from waking life when we sleep

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Human brains have ‘time cells’ that let us recall when events happened

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Human brains have ‘time cells’ that let us recall when events happened

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BoJack Horseman shows just how unreliable memories can be

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Breathing exercise Pranayama

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How to breathe your way to better memory and sleep

Features

Fruit flies mating

Life

Semen seems to help female fruit flies remember things better

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picasso fish

Life

Fish can judge distances accurately just like land animals can

Trigger fish are remarkably good at estimating how far they have swum, perhaps because they have distance-tracking ‘grid cells’ in their brains just like we do

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A common antibiotic seems to have a strange effect on our memories

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Mind

Gut microbes help mice overcome their fears by changing brain activity

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Photographic memory

Life

Watching lots of TV may worsen memory in older people

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