Articles for tag: Memory, memory science, Neuroscience, psychology

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Our Memory Is Not a Perfect Record: The Science of Remembering

Suhail Ahmed

  We like to think of memory as a mental video archive, faithfully storing everything we experience, ready to be replayed on demand. But the last few decades of neuroscience have demolished that comforting idea and replaced it with something far stranger, and far more unsettling. Our memories are not passive files; they are living ...

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[Why Do Some People Remember Every Day of Their Lives?]

Suhail Ahmed

Some people wake up and can tell you exactly what they ate, watched, and worried about on a random Tuesday fifteen years ago. For researchers, this rare ability – often called highly superior autobiographical memory – poses a riveting puzzle: how can recall be so rich for personal days yet mostly ordinary for everything else? ...