We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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Daydreamers are better at solving complex problems.
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Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
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Foreign accent syndrome is a rare brain disorder which causes people to speak in a foreign accent involuntarily.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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You can only remember 4 things at a time.
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