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

3268.235 - 3292.81 Charan Ranganath

There's a school of thought that says that episodic memory evolved from this kind of knowledge of space and basically these primitive abilities to figure out where you are, and so people explain the method of loci that way. And whether or not the evolutionary argument is true, the method of loci is not at all special. So if you're not a good visualizer, stories are a good one.