How we remember and why we forget

[1]Redeye

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April 24, 2006

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Our memory makes us who we are. It's as unique to each person as our fingerprints. Yet we know very little about how it works and why it lets us down. We talk with Rebecca Rupp, author of "Commit

Artist: Rebecca Rupp [2]
Title: Memory and the Brain [3]
Genre: Blues [4]
Length: 16:11 minutes (14.82 MB)
Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

We have a lot of opinions about memory, ours and other people's, but most of us don't know a whole lot about how it works and why it fails us so spectacularly sometimes. Rebecca Rupp has a Ph.D in cell biology and is the author of “Committed to Memory“. She fills in some of the pieces of this puzzle.

[part 2 of a 6-part series on memory]

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