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Re:'Superager' brains resist the march of time to have memor... by mikewarot on Sunday July 11, 2021 @02:21PM (#27803304)
Spaced repetition program - I think I have had one by accident, organizing and tagging all the photos I've taken since 1997. If I took a picture of it, I can likely tell you all about the events surrounding it.

My wife tells me things we did, and there aren't photos of those occasions, so I know I'm not remembering everything.

The photo albums our parents and grandparents had were spaced repetition.

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Re:'Superager' brains resist the march of time to have memor... by hereme888 on Sunday July 11, 2021 @06:07PM (#27804856)
That's awesome. Good thoughts. The attention and strength of emotions really do affect the strength of memory synapses, and you got it so right in that the most common form of spaced repetition is something we all experience: recalling and thinking about memories, including re-opening photo albums.
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