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“Mickes suggests that the answer comes down to how unfiltered the remarks are. Effortless chatter is better than well-crafted sentences at tapping into our minds’ basic language capacities—because human brains evolved to prioritize and remember unfiltered information from social interaction. “Before typewriters, before the pen, before anything, we’ve been talking to each other,” she says. “So it does seem [memory] goes hand-in-hand with natural language.”
Facebook Chitchat Is Unforgettable - ScienceNOW
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