The Signs of a Healthy Brain

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False memories are the sign of a healthy brain. They are, in fact, what your brain is built for. This is absolutely the normal, everyday functioning of human brains interacting with one another. Do that freak you out? At freaks mea there's the next level to the weirdness of this,. which is that it's not just not abnormal, so not just pathological that this happens.

Our guest on this episode is Dr. Julia Shaw, the author of The Memory Illusion.

Julia is famous among psychologists because she was able to implant false memories into a group of subjects and convince 70 percent of them that they were guilty of a crime they did not commit, and she did so by using the sort of sloppy interrogation techniques that some police departments have been truly been guilty of using in the past.

From her book’s website: “In The Memory Illusion, Dr Julia Shaw uses the latest research to show the astonishing variety of ways in which our memory can indeed be led astray. Fascinating and unnerving in equal measure, the international bestseller The Memory Illusion has been translated into 20 languages and offers a unique insight into the human brain, challenging you to question how much you can ever truly know about yourself.”

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