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Making the ‘irrelevant’ relevant to understand memory and aging
Age alters memory. But in what ways, and why? These questions comprise a vast puzzle for neurologists and psychologists. A new study looked at one puzzle piece: how older and younger adults encode and recall distracting, or irrelevant, information. …
UCSB physicists challenge classical world with quantum-mechanical implementation of ‘shell game’
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — — Inspired by the popular confidence trick known as “shell game,” researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated the ability to hide and shuffle “quantum-mechanical peas” — — microwave single photons — — un…