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Dates: during 1971-1971
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THEIR DOUBTS increased when they found that a trained animal generally remembered its skills despite attempts to disrupt its cerebral electrical activity by intense cold, drugs, shock or other stress; only short-term memory?of recently learned skills???was impaired. There was an obvious conclusion: while short-term memory may be partly electrical, long-term memory must be carried in something less ephemeral than an electric current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE MIND: From Memory Pills to Electronic Pleasures Beyond Sex | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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