Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This scheme puts a lot of defenders on theline, meaning every offensive lineman is covered,making it tough to run between the tackles.
In person, Mark Leyner barely resembles the fictional persona of his novels, the Lamborghini-driving, debauched literary superstar whose books can touch off riots in Third World countries. Leyner, a soft-spoken family man from Hoboken, N.J. has built a cult following from his outrageously funny fiction. The protagonist of...
However, among the archived papers in Pusey Library, many of which are destined to collect dust and sit unperturbed in cabinets, there exist theses that challenge the traditional drudgery of topics. Interspersed amongst the hundreds of recent, less engaging synopses, a few unconventional and just plain bizarre titles emerge from...
The results were less-than-surprising to the scientists. Those who concentrated on the meaning of the words had, on average, a greater memory of what they'd seen. Even more revealing: the MRI scans showed greater activity, as measured by blood oxygenation level, for single items that were remembered...
"We asked what the brain was doing differently during experiences which were remembered," Wagner says. "The scan showed greater activation in the left frontal and left temporal region when people paid attention to the semantic meaning of words."