Remembering to remember: Joshua Foer at TED2012
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Joshua Foer challenges the audience to close their eyes, and then he tells a very strange story. In summary: “Imagine yourself standing outside the front door of your...
View ArticleTED Weekends wonders: What’s the key to memory?
Joshua Foer at TED2012. Photo: James Duncan Davidson Joshua Foer thought he might have set out on a fool’s errand when he started training to compete in the U.S. Memory Championship. Only, he ended up...
View ArticlePlaying memory games on this week’s TED Radio Hour
Photo: v u O n g / Flickr CC How do you keep memories? And how much can you trust those preservations? This week’s TED Radio Hour, “Memory Games,” looks at recollections versus actual experiences,...
View ArticleThe fiction of memory: Elizabeth Loftus at TEDGlobal 2013
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Elizabeth Loftus begins her talk at TEDGlobal 2013 with the tragic story of Steve Titus, who was arrested in 1980 because he sort of matched the physical description of,...
View Article9 classic movies about memory manipulation, and how they inspired real...
Total Recall, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Inception. In today’s talk, MIT neuroscientists Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu admit that their latest study Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu: A mouse. A laser...
View ArticleWant to know more about the unreliable nature of memory? Read this
Elizabeth Loftus studies false memories. As she describes in her TED Talk, The fiction of memory, she has implanted erroneous memories of childhood trauma into adult study subjects as part of her...
View ArticleElizabeth Loftus on embedding false memories in U.S. soldiers
Photo: Thinkstock “We can’t reliably distinguish true memories from false memories,” declares psychologist Elizabeth Loftus in today’s talk. She’s spent the past forty years studying the memory, and...
View Article8 TED Talks about memory
Peter Doolittle introduces us to working memory at TED University at TEDGlobal 2013. Photo: Bret Hartman Experiences we have all had: walking into a room with a tremendous sense of purpose, only to...
View ArticleThink you’ve got a terrible memory? You don’t know the half of it
In this far-ranging chat, psychologist Elizabeth Loftus spoke with MIT neuroscientists Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu about the future of memory manipulation. Last year, MIT neuroscientists Xu Liu and Steve...
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