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A collaborative father-son effort, Donald Robbins created the slides for a psychology experiment in 1974. 30 years later, after finding them in the basement of the house he grew up in, his son Christopher Robbins turned them into a flash thing, and into a red-laquered cantilevered shelf in which each slide is illuminated by its own little light bulb.

This brings back memories. These slides were used in a series of experiments in which we investigated a memory device called "interactive imagery". Essentially if you could link two otherwise unrelated words in a vivid picture in your mind, interacting in a bizarre or silly way, it is more likely to be remembered. It had to do with theories postulating the more associative connections between things, and the more vivd, perhaps the "stronger" the chemical bonds or ties, wherever in your brain memories are stored.

We always assume that "intelligence" is related to the brain somehow. I recall Dan McConnell working with earthworms. He would teach them a maze task and them cut them in half. They have the ability to regenerate and now you would have two planeria. He would test them in the maze and found the regenerated piece from the back end of the planeria did better at the maze task than the front end. He concluded that perhaps we should be talking about the seat of intelligence. When I cited his work in some talk I believe I referred to his result as supporting the ass as the seat of human intelligence. Watching George W. confirms my belief.

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