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They found that in a brain area concerned with memory for location the demand for glucose was so high that levels fell by 30%.
BBC: Thinking 'drains the brain'
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What it suggests is that memory is tied directly to location (and emotion), so that the ancient Renaissance trick of remembering things by placing them in various rooms of a familiar house is an excellent way of exploiting the natural resources of the brain to improve retention of information.
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Last year Apple upped its game another notch, randomizing the location of code in memory so that hackers can't even locate commands to hijack them.
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That way, if the power went away, the battery would have enough charge to write the data from the memory to some other more permanent location.
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Location-aware smartphones and inexpensive digital memory storage in the "cloud" of the Internet make the transition possible and inevitable.
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If you do learn the names of these designers, Emma's security commandos abduct you to a secret location within a remote discount store and chemically induce memory loss.
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Thus, the original pathways of the experience are repurposed for other tasks while the particular memory lies dormant until concentration or reminder steer activity to that location again.
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The location was the spot where a vigil was to be held in memory of Neda, a young woman who became a symbol for the opposition after her death was caught on camera.
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Unlike stimulation for treatment of Parkinson's or other issues, in which the brain is stimulated continuously or repeatedly with an implanted pacemaker-like device, memory in the latest study was improved by a single burst of current when administered in the right location as memories were being formed, according to Dr. Fried.
WSJ: Memory Gets Jolt in Brain Research