Comments on: Each Half of the Brain Has Its Own Memory Storage

By: Jayna Allnutt

Jayna Allnutt — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:50:20 +0000

An interesting discussion is worth comment. I feel that it is best to write more on this topic, it may not be a taboo topic however usually people are not sufficient to talk on such topics. To the next. Cheers

By: Mentifex

Mentifex — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:16:31 +0000

The study seems to suggest that each hemisphere has a mind of its own. Since I am left-handed, I often feel as though my right-handed brain area resents the left-handed, dominant hemisphere and takes every opportunity to “get revenge” by dropping things when the right hand has hold of them, or even by trying to cut me when I hold scissors in my right hand.

By: Shaiyan

Shaiyan — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:58:00 +0000

Although I find the referenced paper to be very informative, I disagree with the author of this article when she claims that "Researchers have long known that people can keep only a handful of items in working memory..." Although there have been some landmark studies purporting such models of discrete capacity in visual short term memory, the scientific community is far from reaching a consensus on this matter. See this Wikipedia article for some further links.

By: Chris the Canadian

Chris the Canadian — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:51:47 +0000

Religion has no place in science. Religion has a place in society but NOT in the scientific community.

This study is very interesting and to me shows just how similar our primate cousins are to us. It is amazing to think how much more advanced nature’s technology is to our own that we still do not know HOW memory in the brain is stored, retrieved, discarded, or modified.

By: phardt

phardt — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:41:23 +0000

“…used in both primates and people.”

People ARE primates.

By: Ashley Cakes

Ashley Cakes — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:32:46 +0000

Because they’re religious.

By: The Physics Guy

The Physics Guy — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:15:14 +0000

Why don’t those religious fanatics ever learn?

By: floodmouse

floodmouse — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:07:18 +0000

I will look at religion with the left half of my brain, and science with the right half of my brain. Two items per side: I’ll take Hinduism and Buddhism for my religious items, and I’ll have population biology and epigenetics for my science items. Yeah!

By: Barry Johnstone.

Barry Johnstone. — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:24:12 +0000

Unfortunately religion and science are fairly well intertwined – and with religion causing most, if not all the trouble that this world experiences, the credibility of science is much greater than that of religion!

By: Kenneth J. Klocke

Kenneth J. Klocke — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:01:42 +0000

INDEED!