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New research reveals that stress sharpens your brain’s focus on details but blurs the bigger picture—thanks to heightened amygdala activity interfering with hippocampal memory processing. This explains why you might recall every word in a lecture but forget its context under pressure. The findings, backed by advanced brain imaging, could reshape education and training by helping us harness mild stress for better retention while avoiding shallow learning.

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