The more similar the patterns in the brain of the person who originally viewed the episode and the person who mentally constructed it when listening to the description, the better the transfer of memories from the speaker to the listener, as measured by a separate comprehension test.
But a small part of the problem may lie in how it mentally constructs its work, fixating on tasks rather than causes.
We love narrative as well and try to construct it mentally before putting it on a plate.
Mr. Alto said that he had never done a project like this but, like the real estate broker, Jeff Garibaldi of the Garibaldi Group, he drove by the empty silk mill at 506-508 Morris Avenue every day and mentally constructed what it could be.
Apparently to the trained eye there are semi-standardised colour schemes for different kinds of rock that would be lost on the rest of us, and geologists can mentally construct a 3D impression from a 2D geological map.
During the phone games, the students had to study the "peers' components" screen (Fig. 3b) and mentally construct characters before deciding whom to invite to form a group.
The ability to mentally construct scenes is known to depend on the hippocampus in adults (Hassabis et al., 2007b; Mullally et al., 2012).
Construct it carefully though!
In Brouwer's philosophy, known as intuitionism, mathematics is a free creation of the human mind, and an object exists if and only if it can be (mentally) constructed.
Look, there he is, that emotionally available social butterfly who lives life to the fullest, taking each and every chance at love to come his way, even if it means spending slightly less time mentally constructing an elaborate alternate universe where he's in a hot, monogamous relationship with the Rufskin guy from that phone booth ad on Seventh Ave .and 20th Street.
These participants were scanned as they mentally constructed the show from what they heard.
