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Learning to Write a Bike Is Just Like Writing a Bicycle

Psychologists hypothesise that there is a difference between what psychologists call declarative memory and procedure memory. Procedure memory is the kind of informally known as muscle memory, or the sort of motor skills that you learn throughout your lifetime. And it seems to be that procedure memory is more durable thanDeclarative memory. So i in one example, often we will remember our pin code by how our hand moves. Even if you had to write down, let's say, well, maybe not the numbers, but if it was a longer password, i certainly remember it by how it feels on the keyboard,. unless by what the exact letters are. That can be because you've got this muscle

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