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The brain files routine days under "nothing happened" and barely stores them at all.

Novelty and emotion are what push an experience into long-term storage.

Without either, a Tuesday in March looks identical to a Tuesday in […]

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The brain files routine days under "nothing happened" and barely stores them at all. Memory researchers call this pattern flattening. Novelty and emotion are what push an experience into long-term storage.

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Novelty and emotion are what push an experience into long-term storage.

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Without either, a Tuesday in March looks identical to a Tuesday in […]

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