At Capacity
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At Capacity
In “Funes, the Memorious,”
Clive Thompson • Smarter Than You Think
Although those changes seemed to diminish shortly after completing the novel, the researchers also discovered greater activity in the somatosensory cortex, the area responsible for the sense of touch and embodiment, suggesting a potential mechanism for “embodied semantics”—that is, the reader putting themselves (figuratively) in the story in a way
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It seems that most people can remember only a few high-level details of a book weeks later—if that. A typical reader might spend hours finishing some serious non-fiction—then maybe it comes up at a dinner party, and they find you can remember like three sentences. Basically no detailed recall.