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New clues about how the brain avoids ‘catastrophic forgetting’ — the distortion and overwriting of previously established memories when new ones are created. 🧪
Why don’t new memories overwrite old ones? Sleep science holds clues
Research in mice points towards a mechanism that avoids ‘catastrophic forgetting’.
www.nature.com
January 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist, the great polymath (omnimath is more like it) John von Neumann was born #OTD in 1903.

He considered his quantum mechanics contributions to be most important. To get a sense of the breadth of his work look at his Wikipedia “known for” list. 🧪 ⚛️ 💻 🧮
December 28, 2024 at 2:10 PM