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

5984.499 - 6005.294 Charan Ranganath

That's what I was looking for. Mm-hmm. And so what happens is that you have a little internal model of where you are, what you're thinking about. And when you cross from one room to another, those models get updated. And so now when you're in the kitchen, you have to go back and mentally time travel back to this earlier point to remember what it was that you went there for.