Pokémon - Pokemon on the Brain

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Bulbagarden @Bulbagarden Follow A study just published in Nature Human Behaviour has found that people who avidly played Pokémon as children have a unique cluster of brain cells devoted to recognizing the hundreds of different Pokémon species GAME BOY There's a brain region for Pokémon characters if you played a lot as... Stanford study scanned brains of "Pokémon experts" and compared to a control group. arstechnica.com 5:39 PM -6 May 2019

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toy soldier #5813

May 08, 2019 at 09:27AM EDT

So you're telling me the reason I can remember 100s of different pokemon and not my 10th grade science lessons is potentially minor adjustments to my brain? This is some big news right here!

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Isn't that the weird thing called "memory"? Like you just have something that you can easily recall either due to it having an emotional impact on you or just having been exposed to it for a long time? It's fuckin wild, man.

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