Why We Remember Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

I have a little chapter in my book on this.

I talk about this a little bit in the book,

I mean, I talk about this a little bit in the book,

I talk about in the book about an example of how group therapy is so powerful as a means of memory updating

I talk about in the book is that memories are we all have plasticity as I said retrieving a memory can allow us to change the memory in certain ways and it can change

His new book is out now. It's called Why We Remember, Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Manors.

His book is called Why We Remember, and it's out in paperback.

Sharon Ranganath, author of the book Why We Remember. He spoke to Terry Gross last year.

His new book is called Why We Remember.

my guest is Charan Ranganath author of the new book Why We Remember.

His new book is called Why We Remember.

Sharon Ranganath is the author of the new book Why We Remember.

On Monday's Fresh Air, we talk about how the brain forgets and remembers with neuroscientist Charan Ranganath, author of Why We Remember.

He's the author of the best-selling book, Why We Remember, Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold On to What Matters.

So one key point is that when we remember, it's a very, very restricted view of the past.

And what I mean by this is that let's say if somebody walks away from this interview that we're doing right now, they've listened to it fully attentive, they would tell themselves, I've got a great memory.

So memory is more like a painting than a photograph.

My book is called Why We Remember, Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold On to What Matters.

My ability to remember 80s song lyrics far exceeds my ability to remember why I walked into the kitchen.

Memories are neither false nor true, but constructed in the moment and subject to all of the current moods and biases going on in your brain.

You want to diversify your own set of experiences.

Episodic memory is this ability that we have to remember something that happened once.

Memories are just about the future. They're not about the past.

It's available February 20th. Doctor, thank you very much for joining us tonight. You make the point here that what you have seen, or anyway, in present Biden, is nothing unusual and nothing alarming.