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

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But think about how much redundancy there is in all that, right? It's just a lot of information that you don't need. But if you capture an episodic memory at the point of maximum uncertainty for the singular experience, it's only gonna happen once. But if you capture it at the point of maximum uncertainty or maximum surprise, you have the most useful point in your experience that you've grabbed.