Unruly Memory – with Memory Experts: Vin Walsh, Julia Shaw and Jennifer Wild
Ri Science Podcast
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The Importance of Emotional Memories
Our brains are really bad at remembering the fine-grained details of what happens in our lives. And so, when you line up 10 witnesses or you line up five people who went to a meeting, this was actually about a meeting. This wasn't a criminal case. This was a civil case where it was all about what happened in these 10 seconds of meeting. After this meeting, when fraud was committed, was that because we talked about it? Was that because he told me to do that? Or did the person decide for himself that this is what he wanted to do? Memories matter. Nueces of memories matter. We might trust, if we're undergraduate university students, we
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