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Sherlock Holmes Vindicated


November 30th, 2005


By GadgetManiac

Sherlock Holmes is famously quoted as having said:

“What the deuce is [ the solar system ] to me?” You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”

… some have viewed that as a curiously unprogressive attitude, but now …

New research at University of Oregon affirms Holmes’ maxim by suggesting that the ability to filter out useless information helps memory.

Experiments by researchers at UO show that those subjects who excelled at blocking out extraneous data had the highest memory capacity, which in turn is strongly correlated with intelligence.

Less cluttered brains ‘aid memory’ - Daily Mail, 23rd November 2005

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