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            <title>Best of Our Blogs: June 24, 2011</title>
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            <description>To tell you the truth, memories of my early school days are a mixed range of slightly traumatic to idiotic. In some ways, I had more drama in my life at age 8 than I did at age 28.
These are the tales I love to tell new friends and laugh with old ones about how crazy our public and private school experiences were. Besides batting away cockroaches in our filthy gum-filled desks, I was always crying from mean teachers who scolded us for putting hands in our pockets or not getting math. The teachers were so strict that one of my classmates peed in his pants because he took our teacher&amp;#8217;s warning that, &amp;#8220;no one can leave this room until you&amp;#8217;re finished with your assignment&amp;#8221; literally.
Did I mention this was private school?
Public school ended up being a lot better for me....</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:38:15 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>How does it work? Pick your theory</title>
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            <description>I&amp;#8217;m working with a man who has neuropathic pain in his right (dominant) hand.  He developed his pain some 8 years ago after he caught it in a woodworking machine and basically mashed it, damaging most of the carpal tunnel area.  After numerous orthopaedic, and plastic surgical procedures, he&amp;#8217;s now left with nasty scarring, and even nastier neuropathic pain with some central sensitisation elements.  While he has almost full range of movement in his wrist and fingers, he rarely uses his hand and instead, cradles it or leaves it sitting half-curled, palm up.
We&amp;#8217;ve been working together for a month or so, along with physiotherapy and psychology, and my parts of this programme have been to help him develop a personalised model of the factors that contribute to his pain; hel...</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:28:27 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>New PTSD Sleep Clinic Opens in New Mexico</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Changing Nightmares: Imagery Rehearsal Therapy</title>
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            <description>“Your Health” columnist Kim Painter reports in USA Today that imagery rehearsal therapy is helping some people change their nightmares.This method is just one form of cognitive behavioral therapy. A variety of CBT techniques have been used to reduce nightmare frequency.One method is to record your nightmares in a diary. Relaxation exercises also may be helpful. Exposure techniques involve “reliving” a nightmare in your imagination during the daytime.Cognitive-restructuring techniques involve changing a nightmare. One technique is lucid dreaming treatment; you change the nightmare as it occurs during sleep.Imagery rehearsal therapy involves changing the nightmare while awake; you “rehearse” the new version in your mind during the day.The first step is to write down a recent nigh...</description>
            <author>Sleep Education</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:56:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Too Lazy to Exercise?</title>
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            <description>I get winded from climbing a flight of stairs.  This is pathetic.  Aside from having two tumors in my neck (which have no impact on my lung capacity) I&amp;#8217;m not sick.  I’m just lazy. I’m a skinny, out of shape weakling.  I&amp;#8217;ve always hated exercising.
I&amp;#8217;ve been a dancer and choreographer most of my life.  But to me it never was exercise; it was a profession.  Since my first surgery I’ve suffered from dizziness that keeps me from dancing.  I feel like I’ve been evicted from the heaven of the dance world and am now walking among mortals who have to face the drudgery of jogging, yoga, and stair masters.  I find exercising utterly and mind numbingly boring.  I detest it.
I&amp;#8217;ve tried many strategies to get myself to exercise.  Positive reinforcement: Reading...</description>
            <author>Everything Changes</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:34:33 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>A recording or the real thing?</title>
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            <description>I&amp;#8217;m musing about an article I read while browsing the internet looking for information on hypnosis. It&amp;#8217;s from the BBC &amp;#8211; you can read it here &amp;#8211; where it is announced that a recording of guided imagery is useful for kids with abdominal pain, saying &amp;#8216;they can imagine themselves in scenarios like floating on a cloud&amp;#8217; and experience improvements in their pain.
I think this is a great piece of news with a sting in the tail. Like most news articles it fails to deliver the detail, and as you know, the devil is in the details! Let me say firstly that I haven&amp;#8217;t read the original article which is found in the journal Pediatrics, and apparently follows on from similar studies showing that hypnosis for kids has some good effect &amp;#8211; apparently because kids h...</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:39:44 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Visual and Dyslexic Thinking and Learning Styles and the Educational Controversies</title>
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            <description>There's a lot of talk lately about 'Anti-Learning Styles' proponents like Daniel Willingham, a cognitive psychologist who says &quot;cognitive psychologists know they (learning styles) don't exist.&quot; Huh? Here he is being interviewed in the Washington Post.But a good question raised by his discussion is whether too much burden is placed on teachers to teach toward different learning styles rather than students to identify how they learn best (or how they learn worst). The essential thing for teachers is to be aware of the need to present information in different forms (redundancy) - words and pictures - and consider working memory for students who have trouble keeping up with the class. But many types of instruction can't be easily translated into kinesthetic terms - what makes more sense is if ...</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Someone Failed… Is it the System? Everyday EMS Ethics</title>
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            <description>(Source: Life Under the lights)</description>
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            <title>Scenarios. A lot of EMS, a little Einstein</title>
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            <description>(Source: Life Under the lights)</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:19:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Inside View: A conversation between my conscious and sub-conscious mind</title>
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            <description>(Source: Life Under the lights)</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:44:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Have you ever used visualization or imagery?</title>
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            <description>Our bodies are great at remembering hard times: The smell of alcohol in a hospital makes my heart race.  I can&amp;#8217;t wear turtlenecks because they remind me of the compression bandage on my throat after my thyroidectomy.
But the flip side is that our bodies can conjure great experiences too.  Here’s one: My body remembers the days when I was a dancer.  Heat and humidity meant my muscles were always flexible, pliable, and ready to go.  I could enter the studio and launch into the fun stuff with little need to warm up.  Now whenever I&amp;#8217;m in heat and humidity, I feel totally motivated to do physical exercise.  (Crazy I know.)
Before my second surgery, I requested to speak with a chaplain.  I got a Lutheran minister.  I was born Jewish, but I’m not religious, and don’t bel...</description>
            <author>Everything Changes</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:29:34 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Creativity for Non-Visual Thinkers, People with Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities, Aspergers etc.</title>
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            <description>&quot;A thought may be compared to a cloud shedding a shower of words.&quot; - L.S. VygotskyHad an email last week from someone with a nonverbal learning disability - and he asked us a great question...that given that visual imagery seems to be so important in creative work, was there hope for NLDer's in the Conceptual Age? Of course! We apologize for not giving as much attention to non-visual thinking on this blog (part of the reason is our interest and large clinic population of dyslexics), so we'd like to correct this slight right now.Verbal thinkers tend to have less trouble than visual thinkers in conventional  K-12 school tasks... but if visual perceptual and organization problems also exist (e.g. nonverbal learning disabilities), more struggles await them in their adult years, driving and rea...</description>
            <author>Eide Neurolearning Blog</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Putting Cool Ahead of Science: TweetPsych</title>
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            <description>A new service launched this week by a web developer named Dan Zarrella called TweetPsych. Zarrella is also a marketing manager for HubSpot, an online marketing firm. Zarrella calls himself a &amp;#8220;scientist,&amp;#8221; because I guess it sounds sexier than &amp;#8220;web developer&amp;#8221; or &amp;#8220;marketing manager,&amp;#8221; but he doesn&amp;#8217;t list any academic credentials. (I wouldn&amp;#8217;t mention the scientist or credentials part except that Zarrella makes specific scientific claims about his new service.)
The interesting new service is marketed as offering &amp;#8220;psychological profiling&amp;#8221; based upon what you post to Twitter. But it&amp;#8217;s really just a content analysis service, using two psychological dictionaries and your past 1,000 tweets. Zarrella claims this analysis &amp;#8220;builds a...</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:03:49 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Treating Nightmares in Children with Imagery Rehearsal Therapy</title>
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            <description>Imagery rehearsal therapy is an effective way to treat adults with nightmare disorder. A new study from Canada shows that it also can be helpful for children.The small study involved 11 boys and nine girls between 9 and 11 years of age. Each child had a moderate or severe nightmare problem; they had one nightmare or more per week for at least six months. None of the children had post-traumatic stress disorder.Eleven children were put on a waiting list; nine of the children were treated with imagery rehearsal therapy. This is a way to train your brain to change your nightmares into a new set of images.Results show that imagery rehearsal therapy reduced the frequency of nightmares. This effect lasted during a nine-month follow-up period. Nightmares became so rare that the researchers were un...</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:44:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Treating Nightmares with Imagery Rehearsal Therapy</title>
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            <description>It’s bad enough to have your sleep disrupted by a nightmare. It’s even worse when recurring episodes of disturbing dreams turn into a nightmare disorder.This is a common problem for soldiers and other people who have post-traumatic stress disorder. Their dreams often replay a disturbing event in a way that seems shockingly real.But the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that treatment can help break the cycle of recurring nightmares. This can help your sleep, and your daytime life, return to normal.One of the most effective treatments for nightmares is “imagery rehearsal therapy.” According to the article, it is effective in more than 90 percent of people who try it.“You train your brain to have a new set of images,” sleep researcher Anne Germain told the Post-Gazette.Germain also...</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 11:02:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>fMRI of Learning Styles: Confirmation of Visual and Verbal Learners</title>
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            <description>Using a simple True/False Learning Styles questionnaire(like this, see below), researchers found that people could reliably predict whether they are predominantly visual or verbal learners. When verbal learners remember pictures, they translate pictures into words (their preferred style of storing information); whereas visual learners will do the reverse - translating words in pictoral representations. Verbal learners activated their left supramarginal gyrus, whereas visual learners activated their right fusiform cortex. Great to see these individual differences in learning confirmed with functional MRI imaging. Even among some of our esteemed colleagues we've heard such opposite remarks as, &quot;Who can think without words?&quot; and &quot;I can't make any pictures in my mind...&quot; For different subjects...</description>
            <author>Eide Neurolearning Blog</author>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>New Blog: Mindfulness and Psychotherapy</title>
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            <description>I&amp;#8217;m pleased to introduce our newest blog, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, by clinical psychologist Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. Dr. Goldstein is a mindfulness expert and an engaging writer and we&amp;#8217;re happy to have him join Psych Central&amp;#8217;s growing family.
	What is mindfulness? I&amp;#8217;ll let Dr. Goldstein explain from his introductory entry:
	
Mindfulness is intentionally paying attention to the present moment while putting aside our preconceived ideas, expectations, and judgments. It is being in connection with the here and now. Over the past 30 years there has been a buildup of evidence-based research using mindfulness practice to work with difficult medical and mental health issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationships, addiction, insomnia, chronic pain, immune fu...</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:49:57 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Better Remembering with Stories</title>
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            <description>Because remembering a story is easier than remembering sentences, and remembering sentences is easier than remembering word lists, story-based learning may be essential for children (and those of us adults) who have small auditory verbal working memories. In fact research studies in the 1970's established that story learning could enhance memory retention by 2- to 7-fold.Whether listening to or reading a story, story comprehension is a bilateral brain process (see below) - although a special contribution is made by the right hemispheric to get the main point or gist of the story. This right-brained importance probably accounts for why dyslexic individuals may show little trouble comprehending story meaning though verbatim accuracy with reading or listening may be quite off. Other ways to i...</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Feeling Too Vividly</title>
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            <description>When test subjects watched a pair of virtual arms being injured, their galvanic skin responses increased (sympathetic activation, emotional arousal). When the subjects were imagining the arms they saw were theirs, then even stronger responses were seen. fMRI studies in children show that when a child sees another person experiencing pain, their fMRI responses looks as if they were experiencing the pain themselves.Not surprisingly, children with vivid imaginations and imagery struggle knowing what actually happened to them vs. other children - it's because their minds physically feel pain when they see another child getting hurt. Seemingly minor slights, injuries, and injustices experienced over a routine school day can weigh down these children emotionally and physically, so that they beco...</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>All I Have to do is Dream</title>
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            <description>Okay.
I know that I always say Emergiblog is 99% apolitical, but I absolutely had to post this photo.
The man on the far left is my husband, John.
In the middle is my son Kendall, who was an undergraduate at Notre Dame when this was taken.
And that is not an imposter on the right, that really is John McCain!
Kendall had the opportunity to intern for Senator McCain for a semester.
I have a great respect for John McCain, but at the time this was taken I never, ever, ever thought he&amp;#8217;d be the nominee for President. I am thrilled, and proud, to have this photo hanging in my home.
Well, if you didn&amp;#8217;t know before, now you know I&amp;#8217;m a conservative Republican.
And Kendall? He&amp;#8217;s in his third year of law school and Editor-in-Chief of his Law Review.
And a staunch Democrat.
Go f...</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:33:46 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Learning by Doing and Thinking</title>
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            <description>Here's more evidence that the most efficient way to learn a motor task is combine mental (imagery) training with motor training. It's not enough to show. Imagery training involved having students visualize the actions before practicing them. Combined mental and motor training resulted improved accuracy and speed. fMRI studies showed that the fusiform cortex especially benefited from mental training.Imagery instruction is fairly commonplace among high level sports trainers, but perhaps more imagery should be considered in all levels and many types of education. Obvious hands-on or procedural activities - technical disciplines or careers come to mind (engineering, music, art), but also many tasks that require doing - could also benefit, like handwriting, any multi-stepped problem solving or ...</description>
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            <title>Boys' And Girls' Brains Are Different: Listening, Reading, and Language</title>
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            <description>A Northwestern team has found that boys and girls (ages 9 to 15) respond to language tasks differently. Whereas girls abstract language information in a similar fashion whether they listen or read words, the accuracy of boys' responses depended more on the patterns of activation of their auditory (listening to words) or visual (reading words) cortices. Excerpt from Science Daily:&quot;One possibility is that boys have some kind of bottleneck in their sensory processes that can hold up visual or auditory information and keep it from being fed into the language areas of the brain,&quot; Burman said. This could result simply from girls developing faster than boys, in which case the differences between the sexes might disappear by adulthood.Or, an alternative explanation is that boys create visual and a...</description>
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            <title>Visual Thinking, Imagery, and the Brain</title>
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            <description>Although &quot;Visual Thinkers&quot; seem to comprise a large group of learners, people often mean very different things by this term. For some, it means to taken in information visually, that is by watching or observing. For others, it means to process information visually, by translating words or events into personal visual images.In this in press article, Marcel Just introduces more complexity into the field of visual thinking, by discussing the different brain processes associated with the understanding of processing complex meaning, images, and representations. Among individuals with high functioning autism (HFA), there are various studies that suggest that autistics process more types of information (e.g. language) through visual and spatial areas vs. language alone. When scientists looked at ...</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Vivid Memory of the Past Linked to Imagination of the Future</title>
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            <description>Washington University scientists have found that the patterns of brain activation seen in vivid recollections of the past are very closely linked to prompted imaginations of the future. The full length paper is available at the link below. Study subjects had more vivid future projections if the prompts relied on contexts or environments that they were familiar with, and the the activation of brain areas association with autobiographical or personally-experienced memory back this up.A number of implications come to mind. When a child has trouble imagining themselves in future events or circumstances, is it simply a lack of planning, or could a weakness in their personal memory make it hard for them to visualize what this situation would be like. And on the other end of the continuum, is tha...</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Imagery by Ear or Eye</title>
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            <description>Here's a study that highlights the trouble with thinking about simple classifications of visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learners. Whether we read or listen to words that have strong images, the intraparietal sulcus or IPS seems to be an important brain area to be activated. Images, like the IPS, are very multimodal, incorporating visual pictures, sound, sense of space, and movement. The graphs below show that whether strong image-evoking words were read or heard, the left IPS became quite active. The intraparietal sulci (right and left) are very cross-modal and interestingly implicated in some of the dyslexia-plus traits such as dyspraxia / motor planning difficulties, dyscalculia / impaired number sense, and verbal short term memory. Because in crossmodal areas, different senses and mot...</description>
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            <title>Vivid Visual Thinkers - Blessings and Burdens</title>
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            <description>When one of our vivid visualizing preschoolers was being tested for a gifted private school, the school psychologist gushed about the possibility he might have a near-photographic memory, but unfortunately he wouldn't make the cut-off for the school. This wouldn't be the last time this student and his parents would see that gifts can also turn out to be burdens, depending on the expectations and tasks at hand. Webster's dictionary defines eidetic memory as involving &quot;extraordinarily accurate and vivid recall especially of visual images&quot; and in the first systematic study of this form of memory, when elementary school were told to look at a picture like the one on the right, 2-15% were able to recall the picture with a high accuracy of detail, the images seem to last for 40 sec on longer, an...</description>
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            <title>Vivid Imaginations</title>
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            <description>People who say they have vivid personal imagery, really can fire up their visual cortices when they imagine. In an interesting study from Texas, researchers showed that people who said they could make vivid images really could activate their early visual brain centers better those who said they couldn't. This matches with our informal surveys of children and adults who tell us that they have vivid images (&quot;I don't go to movies because the pictures in my head are better than what I see on the screen&quot;) or don't (&quot;I don't know what people mean when they tell me to make a picture in my head&quot;). The study also adds an fascinating tidbit about individual differences in visual imagery and common cognitive tests like the Stroop. The Stroop is often used as an index of attentional dysfunction. It's ...</description>
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