#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

2335.519 - 2360.675 Charan Ranganath

There's this idea that we form these internal models at particular points of high prediction error or points of, I believe, also points of uncertainty, points of surprise or motivationally significant periods. And those points are when it's maximally optimal to encode an episodic memory. So I used to think, oh, well, we're just encoding episodic memories constantly, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.