Category: memory
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Remembering And Forgetting: An Interview With Author Ylva Ostby
Why do we remember and forget stuff? In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk with Ylva Ostby, a neuropsychologist from the University of Oslo, who, with her sister, Hilde Ostby, has written a book for everyone about memory. Their book is called Adventures in Memory and is brand new this week. The…
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Flashbulb Memories: Vivid But Wrong
In this podcast episode we talk about a type of memory called “flashbulb” — strong, vivid memories of emotionally charged events that are often inaccurate. And we discuss how collective memories might be changing as media technology changes. (If you want to read more about memory, check out this blog post on the topic.) You…
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Memory
Did you see the movie Inside Out? Remember the colored memory balls — stacks and stacks of them? Well, that’s not how memory works. In this podcast episode we talk about the way we store and retrieve memories. You can subscribe to the HumanTech podcast through iTunes, Stitcher, or where ever you listen to podcasts.
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The Next 100 Things You Need To Know About People: #118 — You Can’t Trust Memories
How accurate are memories? Did you see the movie Inside Out? In the movie memories are stored as round colored balls. And the balls can be retrieved and played back. This seems intuitively right. You think back to when you were last at a family gathering or an annual work celebration. You run the event…
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100 Things You Should Know About People: #99 — Well Practiced Skills Don't Require Conscious Attention
I have two grown children. The entire time they were growing up they took Suzuki method music lessons. My son studied violin, and my daughter studied piano. After attending one of my daughter’s piano recitals, I asked her what she was thinking about while she was performing the piano sonata piece (from memory, no music…
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100 Things You Should Know About People: #94 — Repetition Changes Your Brain
Have you ever wondered what a memory is exactly and how it gets formed? You have hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of memories in your brain. Songs you remember how to sing. Scenes from movies. Memories of last year’s holiday. Facts such as the names of all the planets, and on and on. Do you know…
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100 Things You Should Know About People: #90 — Recognition Is Easier Than Recall
Let’s say I asked you to remember this list of words: Apple Table Peach Window Chair Pear Orange Fork Mango And then later on I asked you to reconstruct the list from memory. That is called a “recall” memory task. Now let’s say I bring you into a kitchen and ask you what items in…
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100 Things You Should Know About People: #78 — People Use A Schema To Encode And Remember
If I ask you to describe what a “head” is, you might talk about the brain, hair, eyes, nose, ears, skin, neck, etc. A head is made up of many things, but you’ve gathered all that information together and called it “head”. Similarly I could talk about the concept “eye”. And you would think about…
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100 Things You Should Know About People: #68 — Smells Evoke Emotions and Memories
Do you have a type of food that makes you feel a certain way? When you smell it you have an emotional reaction? For me it is kasha. Kasha is a form of buckwheat. You cook the buckwheat kernals in oil and then boil them (with salt, pepper, onion, and garlic). I’ve never met very…
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100 Things You Should Know About People: #60 — Cognitive "Loads" Are The Most "Expensive"
You are paying bills at your online banking website. You have to think about what bills need to be paid when, look up your balance, decide how much to pay on your credit cards, and push the right buttons to get the payments processed. As you do this task, you are thinking and remembering (cognitive),…
