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I certainly know it's better than mine. But did you know that kids can remember tomorrow what they forgot today.  I can't even remember today what I forgot today.  My teenager often has to remind me, "Mom, you went into the kitchen for orange juice." A new study has revealed that small children can remember a piece of information better days later than they can on the day they first learned it. Researchers discovered this by showing a video game to 4- and 5-year-olds.  The object was to   remember associations between objects.  The kids who re-played the game after a two-day delay scored more than 20 percent higher than kids who re-played it later the same day. “An implication is that kids can be smarter than we necessarily thought they could be,” says Kevin Darby, a doctoral student in psychology at The Ohio State University and co-author of the study, at newswise.com. “They can make complex associations, they just need more time to do it.” Now I don

You wouldn't know it from me but it's better to wait a little before making decisions , according to a new study. I constantly make snap judgments (sometimes I'm right, in the case of a husband, and sometimes I'm wrong, also in the case of a husband, and yes, the same one) but this new study has found that hesitating even a fraction of a second makes for a better decision, newswise.com reports. “Decision making isn't always easy, and sometimes we make errors on seemingly trivial tasks, especially if multiple sources of information compete for our attention,” the Web site quotes first author Tobias Teichert, PhD, a postdoctoral research scientist in neuroscience at CUMC at the time of the study and now an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. To make a good decision?  Simply, do nothing.  At least for a while.   “Postponing the onset of the decision process by as little as 50 to 100 milliseconds enables the brain to focus attentio