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What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

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Do You Remember That We Had Your Birthday Party Yesterday?

A friend of mine, a scientist named Robert Sapolsky, told me that his father, when he was old, suffered from dementia. He couldn't remember if he'd had breakfast this morning but could stand up and give a 10-minute lecture on the history of flying buttresses word for word. So we all have different kinds of memory. In the Tetris experiment, they took somebody who could make no short-term memories and taught him to do Tetris on a computer with an arrow key. And then as the days went on, he got better and better at Tetris.

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