how storytelling style shapes the way the brain forms memories

Does the way a person hears about an event shape their recollection of it later? In a new Journal of Neuroscience paper, Signy Sheldon and colleagues, from McGill University, explored whether different storytelling strategies affect how the brain stores that experience as a memory and recalls it later.  The researchers created narratives with the same core events, …

neurodivergent relationships: big picture thinking + acceptance

When a group of people share neurodivergence in common, that doesn’t necessarily mean they are all the same or even relate to each other that well…very far from it…since as the saying goes, when you have met one autistic person you have met one autistic person; we are all divergently divergent, being each divergent in …