Dr. Charan Ranganath: How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols

3306.532 - 3334.457 Charan Ranganath

Exactly, yeah. And so... If you damage those long-range tracks, the prefrontal cortex is not efficiently able to bias that competition. And so now the inane gets remembered at the expense of the important. That's, I think, the key thing. And that's why people talk about the prefrontal cortex as the central executive. As anybody who's worked a job knows, it's like the executives are useless, right?