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Showing posts with label false memory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label false memory. Show all posts
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Remembrance of things past

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"The human brain is rife with all sorts of ways of getting it wrong." This quote is from a talk by eminent astrophysicist Neil deG...
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Saturday, April 8, 2023

Invention of things past

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On July 7, 2005 , an Islamic suicide bomber detonated an explosive device on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square, London, killing thirte...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

The mental delete key

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About ten years ago, some students in my AP Biology class decided to do an experiment on false memory as their final project. The setup was ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Remembrance of things past

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Sometimes science uncovers things that are profoundly unsettling.  The problem is, as Neil deGrasse Tyson pointed out, "The good thing ...
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Monday, April 20, 2015

Stop me if I've already told you about this

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One of the most ubiquitous, but mysterious, phenomena in neuroscience is déjà vu . We all get it from time to time -- the uncanny sense th...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Many worlds

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I've always had a fairly good memory -- for certain things, at least.  I usually lecture my classes without notes, for example.  I find ...
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