Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new MIT study shows sentences linger in memory when their meanings stand apart. The brain remembers ideas best when they are ...

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A short sentence can fade fast. Another can hang around for minutes, or years. New research from MIT suggests the difference is not style or spelling. It is meaning. In a study of 500 people and 2,500 ...