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That may yet turn out to be the case with the neurons found by the Princeton lab. The mechanism Gould and her colleagues uncovered in macaque monkeys could be nothing more than a useless evolutionary leftover, a kind of neurological appendix. But if, as many suspect, the new neurons turn out to be actively involved with inscribing memories, the old paradigm is in for at least a minor tune-up--and maybe a complete overhaul...
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...mind (remember?) that age takes a very normal toll on what psychologists call processing speed--the rapidity with which you can summon up the names of people and places. Our brains, in any case, have evolved with a certain built-in forgetfulness, lest they become hopelessly cluttered with useless information...
...ironic, then, that the council's 1999-2000 year was defined not by its own actions but by the decisions made on Dec. 15, 1999 by the very student body that apparently finds it so useless...
...knows the most useless pieces of information," she said, and because of that, he had the chance to win $1 million. "But I love...