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Our memories are always with us, shaping and being shaped by the information flowing through our senses, in a continuous feedback loop.
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Our sense of who we are depends, in significant part, on our memories. And yet they’re not to be trusted. ‘What is selected as a personal memory,’ writes Professor of psychology and neuroscience Giuliana Mazzoni, ‘needs to fit the current idea that we have of ourselves.’
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
Memory is fallible, of course, but not because of storage limitations so much as retrieval limitations.
Daniel Levitin • The Organized Mind
But every time you learn something new, you change the brain—the residue of your experiences is stored.
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
Remembering Daniel Kahneman: A Mosaic of Memories and Lessons - By Evan Nesterak - Behavioral Scientist
Evan Nesterakbehavioralscientist.orgSuccessful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
We’re talking about what psychologists today would describe as the “adaptive unconscious.” Timothy Wilson, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, has described this in his important book Strangers to Ourselves (a very Augustinian title!). Over the past twenty years psychology has come to appreciate the overwhelming influence of “nonconscious
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