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

5921.056 - 5944.749 Charan Ranganath

Studies of expertise showing how experts like chess experts can memorize so much in such a short amount of time because of the schemas they have for chess. But then also showing that those lead to all sorts of distortions in memory. The discovery that the act of remembering can change the memory, can strengthen it, but it can also distort it if you get misinformation at the time.