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Memory and the Increase of Knowledge

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In his Henry Tizard Memorial Lecture, delivered at Westminster School on February 29, 1968, Professor Young discussed the increase of knowledge and its storage in the brain.

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  1. Lenneberg, E., The Biological Foundations of Language (Wiley, 1967).

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YOUNG, J. Memory and the Increase of Knowledge. Nature 217, 905–907 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217905a0

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