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See how researchers use transcranial magnetic stimulation to study the brain and improve memory
“Forgetfulness,” poem by Billy Collins
Patient H.M. and short-term memory loss explained
Learn how the olfactory bulb in the brain processes the information from the olfactory receptors lining the nose
Hear a neuroscientist Christof Koch speaks about how a neuron identifies selective encoding and coding to specific memories
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.
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See how researchers use transcranial magnetic stimulation to study the brain and improve memory
“Forgetfulness,” poem by Billy Collins
Patient H.M. and short-term memory loss explained
Learn how the olfactory bulb in the brain processes the information from the olfactory receptors lining the nose
Hear a neuroscientist Christof Koch speaks about how a neuron identifies selective encoding and coding to specific memories
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Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
French philosopher
Jerry Lucas
Jerry Lucas
American basketball player
Daniela Schiller
Israeli-born cognitive neuroscientist
Georg Elias Müller
German psychologist
Hermann Ebbinghaus.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
German psychologist
Eric Kandel
Austrian-American neurobiologist
Frederic Bartlett
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