3 I Discovering the feel-of-things
The Oxford Mindfulness Podcast
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The Effects of Memory on Learning
Whenever we retrieve an item from memory, it is re encoded. It's affected by the context now as well as the elements that were already in the memory. This ncoding means that what is put back in the memory store is different from what you took out. And this is because if any of us are feeling sad or hopeless or deeply ious right now in this moment, the memory we bring up can acquire extra layers from the current emotion. The research on eye witness testimony illustrates this very well.
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