How to maximize your brain's potential (with Professor of Neuroscience, Dr. Charan Ranganath)

"And I think our brains are much more the high-performance sports car than they are this big cargo truck that lugs along And that's basically the trade-off that we have is you either carry a lot of memories with you in which case you're not going to be able to access what you want when you need it you have a more nimble brain that basically takes a little bit but makes the most of it"

Charan Ranganath is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California at Davis. For over 25 years, Dr. Ranganath has studied the mechanisms in the brain that allow us to remember past events, using brain imaging techniques, computational modeling and studies of patients with memory disorders. He has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. He lives in Davis, California.

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