A Clutterful Mind, Heir To The Earth, Partnership

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Today, you’ll learn about why our ability to remember things seems to get worse with age—it’s not memory loss, which animals could become the new dominant species in the event of our extinction, and how an unsupportive romantic partner can actually affect the way you think and feel about yourself.

Maybe your mom was right about cleaning your room.

“How Memory ‘Clutter’ Makes it Harder to Remember Things as we Get Older” by Alexander Easton
- https://theconversation.com/how-memory-clutter-makes-it-harder-to-remember-things-as-we-get-older-176767
“Memory Issues for Older People Could be the Result of ‘Clutter’” by Sarah Sloat
- https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/memory-issues-older-people-result-clutter-rcna15133

The next era for animals.

“When humans are gone, what animals might evolve to have our smarts and skills?” by Joanna Thompson
- https://www.livescience.com/what-animals-will-fill-human-niches
“Can introduced animals replace extinct ones?” by Brigitte Osterath
- https://www.dw.com/en/can-introduced-animals-replace-extinct-ones/a-16937417

Couples therapy may in fact help your brain.

“Having an unsupportive romantic partner is associated with neurophysiological changes in error processing” by Eric W. Dolan
- https://www.psypost.org/2022/04/having-an-unsupportive-romantic-partner-is-associated-with-neurophysiological-changes-in-error-processing-62977
“Unsupportive romantic partner behaviors increase neural reactivity to mistakes” by Erin N Palmwood
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167876021008886

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:08.8	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. I'm Nate.
0:11.9	And I'm Kali. If you're dropping in for the first time, welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're a loyal listener, welcome back.
0:20.0	Today you'll learn about why our ability to remember things seems to get worse with age.
0:24.0	It's not memory loss. Which animals could become the new dominant species in the event of our extinction
0:30.0	and how an unsupportive romantic partner can actually affect the way you think and feel about yourself.
0:35.0	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:38.0	Nate, are you daydreaming again?
0:40.0	No, I'm just trying to remember if I turned the light off before I left the house, sorting through some brain clutter.
0:46.0	Clutter? Yeah, obviously we all know memory declines as we age, but a new study showed that our memories might not actually be getting worse, just cluttered.
0:54.6	Is it because the older we get, the more memories we have?
0:57.3	That's part of it. It's harder to navigate when trying to access something specific,
1:01.6	but it's not just how much information we gather,
1:04.1	it's also what information.
1:06.0	Wait, how do you mean?
1:07.3	Well, as we age, we lose some of our ability
1:09.4	to focus on specific important details.
1:12.1	And as a result, we end up storing too much information
1:14.6	that doesn't really matter.
1:16.2	Like how I remember every single cast member of the Bachelorette?
1:19.8	All of them?
1:20.8	Well, yeah, I mean, there's there's Brad there's that there's another
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