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Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Where's the rest of us ?

Via @OliverSacks' tweet, a superb and moving short article by Dan Levitin  in the Atlantic Monthly on what survives in human beings even when episodic and semantic memory are lost.



Posted by Nick Watkins at 04:05
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