Re: Can low-carb diets affect memory?

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:20:14 +1100, Alan S
<loralgtweightandcarbs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:56:50 +0000, Trinkwasser
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:36:32 +1100, Alan S
<loralgtweightandcarbs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:57:24 +0000, Trinkwasser
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On 23 Jan 2009 12:11:20 GMT, Chris Malcolm <cam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

It's hard to say exactly how long it took me to recover my previous
wits after shifting to a lower carb diet with far fewer carby snacks
to keep the brain spinning at high revs, but it was at least a few
months.

My experience was weeks - but mere hours to revert. :(

There have been continuing long term improvements also, except for
those damn transposed letter pairs of which I have done two already in
this post, time for more coffee . . .

Can you explain that? I've never been a speed typist, but I
notice lately that transpsoed letter ( did it there too -
but it was the middle two:-) pairs are my most common need
for correction.

yes it's weird, seems to be a brain sending the message to the fingers
out of sequence kind of thing

Usually my fingers know when they did it wrong and I catch them
immediately, but can't catch them *before* I type them

(the missing caps and commas are not typos but duff keys, my fingers
don;t tell me when the keys press and don't function. The ; instead of
' is another one my fingers do but miss letting me know)

I alos have an odd one; I always type remeber and
congratualtions as they just appeared here. The "alos" is
uncorrected.

Despite knowing about that tendency I find it almost
impossible to correct for it while typing and I
automatically go back to correct it after - and find I did
it that way.

Weird.

I remember a psychology experiment once where we had to press key
sequences as fast as possible, the point of the experiment was to
discover the *type* of errors made. I was exceptionally fast and
accurate with sequqnces under seven keys, then went completely to
pieces. I guess I'll never be a pianist. There you go, that was a
genuine typo. see what I mean?

I can't recall the basis of it now, some of it was to do with
information processing and some was to do with whether you made
mechanical errors, ie just pressing the next door key, or whether you
made logical errors, like spelling a word when the actual thing you
were supposed to type was a misspelling that was nearly a word
.

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