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How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castel

Explore episode Jul 13, 2026

That's the difference between seeing something and noticing it. Someone who studies vision, we know a lot of information reaches the retina, but then how much of it reaches our kind of more conscious level? And not all of it does.

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