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Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference

58 pointsby gmaystoday at 4:26 PM9 commentsview on HN

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hungryhobbittoday at 8:16 PM

People in the Education field have known that stress hampers learning for a long time ... but it's still nice to see empirical results.

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Qemtoday at 9:25 PM

I wonder if it helps explain in part why the Publish or Perish culture is wrecking science and stalling scientific progress. The stressful environment it tends to create it's not conductive to learning and thinking in depth.

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