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Scientists Changing Theories About Memory : NPR

Everyone knows that frustrating feeling when something is just “on the tip of your tongue.” Like when you run into an old acquaintance on the street — you know you know the person’s name, but it just seems slightly out of your grasp.

Neuroscientists are now studying that phenomenon with brain scanners, and their research is completely changing their view of how human memory works, explains Jonah Lehrer, editor-at-large at Seed magazine and author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist.

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