Daydreaming builds your memory

by Dan Filbin on March 17, 2010

So sez MSNBC: “Put the cell phone down, drop the Blackberry, cease the nonstop tweeting. All you attention-deficit types think that your multitasking is somehow proving your irreplaceable worth to the world.  You’re making yourself stupid. Or at the very least, you’re affecting your memory. That is the implication of a new study tracking the brain’s ability to form memories by New York University neuroscientists. In the study, test subjects who allowed their minds to “rest” after viewing pairs of images were better able to recall the pairs later.

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