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CM 188: Lisa Genova on the Science Behind Memory

Curious Minds at Work

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What Matters to Me Versus You?

The way we pay attention what matters to me versus you means that we're going to remember the same thing differently absolutely there are different kinds of memory and they're processed differently in our brain. The stuff you know doesn't change with repeated exposure and reminiscing and sharing but the stuff that happened does and it can deviate further and further away from your original memory based on how much you're adding and subtracting to it. It's called confabulation if I add stuff in there that I know is not true at the time but then becomes part of the memory so it's tricky with stuff that happened because it's interesting right we don't accurately remember what happened even from big things like 9

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