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Self-control saps memory resources
- Filthy_casual 11y ago>These findings strongly suggest that self-control and memory encoding share common brain structures and mechanisms, and compete with each other for them So basically, the very moment you're trying to keep yourself from acting on an urge, you're using neurons that would otherwise be used to retrieve a memory? Or am I misunderstanding something?
- cLeEOGPw 11y ago> that would otherwise be used to retrieve a memory Also to create a memory. Self control basically uses up part of working memory which has limited measurable amount of neurons.
- jonnybgood 11y agoI remember reading about something similar in "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman.
- Filthy_casual 11y agoYou're probably thinking of ego depletion.
- CDokolas 11y agoI think "self-control" applies only in the context of the (much disputed) marshmallow experiment. Where adults are involved, some other kind of process should be identified. I'm thinking of this experiment as observation vs some kind of processing, like decision-making, where the input data are secondary to the result.