Elizabeth Loftus, psychologist and distinguished professor at the University of California, Irvine, discusses the prevalence of false memories.
She describes her own experiments in creating false memories, and explains how this impacts fields ranging from law to dieting.
Source: FORA TV
Then yours probably will! Thinking your memory will get worse as you get older may actually be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that senior citizens who think older people should perform poorly on tests of memory actually score much worse than seniors who do not buy in to negative stereotypes about aging and memory loss. [continue reading…]
Wow!
Source: BBC news
This is a cut segment from a larger documentary on Time titled “BBC – Daytime”. It discusses some of the mysteries of memory and how time effects our lives.
Clive Wearing has a neurological disorder called Anterograde Amnesia which is a condition that doesn’t allow new memories to transfer into long-term memory. This means that he will never remember anything since his incident, similarly to the movie Memento.
Clive was an accomplished pianist in the 80s’, and fortunately can still play the piano flawlessly. He only remembers his wife, and anything else to him is new information, even if it was presented to him once before.
There’s more information on Clive located here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing… and more information on anterograde amnesia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia
Source: BBC, UTUBE
