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Jon Horvitz

Jon Horvitz

The power of forgetting

Remembering everything you experience might sound good. But what would it mean for an event to be memorable when everything’s memorable?

Dec 12, 2022

The power of forgetting

Dec 12, 2022

Jon Horvitz

Mind, Brain and my cat, Emma

Humans have about one-hundred billion neurons. Cats have about one billion. We win.

Dec 4, 2022

Dec 4, 2022

Jon Horvitz

Alex is at the Hungarian Pastry Shop

Alex is in his mid-30s. He’s heavy and he wears a bulky suit, and only part of his white button-down shirt is tucked into his pants. The…

Nov 13, 2022

Nov 13, 2022

Jon Horvitz

Do you still remember today those who have influenced you most?

The strange back and forth between being influenced and influencing others

Aug 27, 2022

Do you still remember today those who have influenced you most?

Aug 27, 2022

Jon Horvitz

Preparing for a Class of Two Hundred Students Next Week

In one week, I’ll start teaching. There will be about two-hundred students in the course on Brain-Mind relations — sleep, learning, memory…

Aug 21, 2022

Aug 21, 2022

Jon Horvitz

Five Stories that Hooked me on Medium

at a time I wasn’t sure what I’d gotten into.

Aug 10, 2022

Five Stories that Hooked me on Medium

Aug 10, 2022

Jon Horvitz

In Santiago de Compostela

The Café in the Postcard

Aug 4, 2022

Aug 4, 2022

Jon Horvitz

In Santiago: Thinking about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Thoughts of a neuroscientist in Spain.

Jul 28, 2022

Jul 28, 2022

Jon Horvitz

Walking to City College of New York

Thoughts of a would-be writer

Jul 21, 2022

Walking to City College of New York

Jul 21, 2022

Jon Horvitz

Give the Public What it Wants. Really?

You’ll end up selling a lot of deep-fried food

Jul 16, 2022

Jul 16, 2022

Jon Horvitz

Jon Horvitz

Musician and coffee lover. I live in NYC, conduct research in Psychology and Neuroscience, and teach wonderful students at City College of New York.

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