What You Learned From Your University Professor in Memory Research

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CNN's John Sutter asks a memory researcher to share an anecdote from his university days. The professor took out a piece of paper and folded it in half, then kept doing it until he had a tiny rectangle that represented what you would remember in the future. "You end up with a tiny, tiny, tiny piece of reality," author says.

Our guest on this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast 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.

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