(Reuters)By now, everyone’s aware that Ben Carson likened slaves to immigrants during a staff speech Monday to mark his first full week as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. As a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1987, Carson famously separated infant twins conjoined at the head. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard… — Ben & Candy Carson (@RealBenCarson) November 18, 2013Except his description did not hit the mark. And they would be able to recite back to you, verbatim, a book they read 60 years ago. Exactly where the brain holds memories is a question with century-old roots, and is likely a function of the memory’s age.

Source: Washington Post March 07, 2017 10:11 UTC