
TWiN 12: A gene for short-term memory
This Week in Neuroscience
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Working Memory and Attention in ADD
Long-term memory probably requires repetition, right? It's like if you use that phone number over and over, eventually you're going to remember it for a long time. So yeah, it's just… There are also some kind of intermediate length as well besides short and long. But there's still some things like what we talked about earlier where if you get a shock, if I shock you or if you have a traumatic event happen, you don't need that to happen twice to remember it. The brain is wired up to remember that.
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