Ep 43: How do we remember? Time Traveling Part 1 | INNER COSMOS WITH DAVID EAGLEMAN

Ep 43: How do we remember? Time Traveling Part 1 | INNER COSMOS WITH DAVID EAGLEMAN

How do billions of neurons store your home address, your ability to ride a bike, and the history of your life? How does memory work in the brain, and how is it different from the way a computer stores information? And what does any of this have to do with the Happy Birthday song, squirrels hiding acorns, bards memorizing epics, or people who cannot forget any of the events of their life? Join Eagleman to learn how and why your brain continually time travels to previous moments.

Original Air Date: January 22, 2024

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Contents:
0:00 - 3:34 - Intro
3:34 - 9:47 - Price/Shereshevsky
9:47 - 14:14 - Comparison to computer memory
14:14 - 14:53 - Lots of different types of memory
14:53 - 18:18 - Short term memory
18:18 - 20:25 - Long term memory
20:25 - 24:47 - Implicit memory
24:47 - 26:41 - Explicit memory
26:41 - 28:20 - Brain damage
28:20 - 33:38 - H.M.
33:38 - 37:09 - Amygdala memory
37:09 - 46:24 - Spatial memory
46:24 - 52:17 - Synapses
52:17 - 57:08 - Beyond synapses
57:08 - 59:03 - Forgetting
59:03 - 01:00:09 - Conclusion
01:00:09 - 01:01:48 - Prediction

Neuroscientist and author David Eagleman discusses how our brain interprets the world and what that means for us. Through storytelling, research, interviews, and experiments, David Eagleman tackles wild questions that illuminate new facets of our lives and our realities.

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[amyrkamal]

i just found out this channel. and this is great I love this

[nehakashyap]

Understanding this world with you is joyfull

[deepthyraj]

Sending my love David. Thank you for all your videos.from British Columbia

[briangendron]

The sheer number of episodes you pump out is impressive. Keep them coming! I’m a psych professor at a community college in SoCal. I regularly recommend your videos (and books) to my students, and always learn new ideas to incorporate into my own lectures. Thank you!

[a.bodhichenevey]

Fantastic lecture on memory. I am looking forward to next week's on predicting what to do next...

[David-spgc]

When I was in my 20 I had an average sense of direction. For the last 20 years I have built large complex machines. I build them in my mind before making cad models of them. I think my hippocampus has been usurped by this activity and now I can almost get lost in a paper bag. But I can see every machine I have ever built or worked on as if it was right in front of me. That’s a lot of machines.

[David-spgc]

I may have an idetic memory for some things but if I don’t put my keys on a hook I’ll spend 30 min a day looking for them

[RNancyP]

David, you are amazing, wow! Thank you so much for your rich articulate descriptions of phenomena. Oh, did I say that you are amazing?!!! 🤩

[williamyalen]

Previous comment doesn't seem to be sticking. Trying again, with this, for the algorithm:
Well done!! :)

[bowoman]

My brain is challenged by the background music, could you turn it down a bit? but I am enthralled by the information!!

[briangale]

This episode of memory brings back memories of my cognitive and biological psychology courses.

[blakebunch]

The purpose of memory is not to remember the past. It's to extract out, from the past, lessons to structure the future. Memory is not a description of the objective past. Memory is a tool. Memory is the past's guide to the future.

[briangale]

I remember learning about the research of Ebbinghous (probably spelled wrong) and the memory or forgetting curve in one of my psych courses.

[David-spgc]

Last week someone at a restaurant said their wine was corked. Almost instantly I recalled reading a fact that the chemical compound trichloroanisole is responsible for. And the little pores on the cork are called lenticells. That was something I read 15 years ago. I’d like to see an AI pull that off.

[rosetam]

Today, Facebook is the holder of our memories open to the world to recollect…

[raystaar]

Neurologists must be a skeptical lot indeed if it took 5 (FIVE) years for them to finally take that female mnemonist seriously. If I were her, I might well have given up trying to convince them.

[carolynquffa]

With the activity and energy involved in brain function, why doesn't the brain get hotter?

[PatriciaBaughman-kn]

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[TheMaxg]

We should ask why we forget. There are people with SAM that don’t…

[carlnebrin]

Leviticus 19:31
“Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.”