Tuesday, July 31, 2007

The Time-Travelling Search Engine Inside Your Mind

By Ker Than
Source: Live Science


To recall memories, your brain travels back in time via the ultimate Google search, according to a new study in which scientists found they can monitor the activity and actually predict what you'll think of next.


The work bolsters the validity of a longstanding hypothesis that the human brain takes itself back to the state it was in when a memory was first formed. The psychologist Endel Tulving dubbed this process "mental time travel."


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