It would be interesting to see what happens if you replaced the "coherent" text with samples of actual speech instead of prose. I think I would have a pretty difficult time remembering the examples they used!

What I expected, of course, is that memory for these passages would improve systematically from 0th order to full text, but that's not quite what happened:

dang! sorry for the false hope

Bibliography
[1] ”Dah dah dah” Right said fred et al
[2] ”I’m blue” Eiffel 65 et al

To be clear, have not been able to read the original study because the link does not work. HEre is a fun paper on fourier. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Gym used to have leaderboards for each task right? I'm surprised no one tried to reboot that as it seemed like a pretty cool feature

French has it as masculine but the more important thing is that it’s pronounced like ”chat, j’ai pété” which means “cat, I farted.”

I'm guessing this is a pretty ridiculous assumption to most neuroscientists (?)—and yet it's never stated directly in our papers!