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How to remember everything

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The Effects of Memory on Performance

People who have exceptional levels of memory will be getting 15 to 20 on the test. That's people who, if you can imagine a sort of distribution of performance in the normal population, they are way up towards one side of that scale. When I was doing it, it felt like it was exercising, perhaps more my short term memory. Is that the case? Well, there are different aspects to memory that we're interested in. We're also interested in long term memory. And one of the things we want to find with this big new study is to try to find out how specific some of these abilities are.

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