Is There a Problem With Autobiographical Memory?

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With a photographic memory, especially the kind we think of in fictional characters, isn't really a thing. Even those people who are as close to this as we can get, even those people, or you can pretty easily give them false memories. So they basically, their foundation is much higher than ours in terms of remembering something in a specific category. And but if you ask them to remember facts, they'de probably just as bad or worse than the average pernomation.

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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