[Sigia-l] Too much knowledge...

[Listera]

A new study found adults did better remembering pictures of imaginary
animals than they did remembering pictures of real cats.

[...]

 The results show how some types of memory might be better when people
forget what they know and instead approach a subject with a child-like sense
of naïveté.

 "Verbatim memory is often a property of being a novice," said Sloutsky, who
is also associate dean of research at the university's College of Human
Ecology . "As people become smarter, they start to put things into
categories, and one of the costs they pay is lower memory accuracy for
individual differences."

<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-05/osu-tmk051005.php>

I knew that.:-)

Ziya
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