Even for young babies, out of sight doesn’t automatically mean out of mind. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that even though infants cannot remember the shapes of two hidden objects, they are surprised when those objects disappear completely.
The conclusion? Infants do, indeed, remember an object’s existence without recalling what that object is.
This is important, Melissa Kibbe explains, because it sheds light on the brain mechanisms that support memory in infancy and beyond.
“Our results seem to indicate that the brain has a set of ‘pointers’ that it uses to pick out the things in the world that we need to keep track of,” says Kibbe,
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A balanced diet emphasizing unsaturated fat from foods like avocado, nuts and olive oil for holiday meals helps the body maintain healthy levels of insulin,
Swapping out white bread and pasta carbohydrates for unsaturated fat from foods like avocados, olive oil, and nuts helps the body avoid insulin levels that could be triggers for diabetes and, eventually, heart disease, the study found.
The preferred diet is very similar to the Mediterranean diet, inspired by the foods of southern Italy and Greece and emphasizing healthy fats, fruits and vegetables
Meghana Gadgil, a postdoctoral fellow in general internal medicine at Johns Hopkins University
