{"id":28582,"date":"2012-07-15T09:47:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T15:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/memory-time-and-the-brain.html"},"modified":"2012-07-15T09:47:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T15:47:38","slug":"memory-time-and-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/memory-time-and-the-brain.html","title":{"rendered":"Memory, time, and the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fascinating stuff. \u00a0We are all storytellers to ourselves — coordinating current preceptions into a meaningful, functional whole, and recalling them later in still more of an interpreted gestalt<\/i> than a detailed video. \u00a0We attempt to draw meaning and coherency from the world, which is both a great strength and a great weakness in various circumstances.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Greg Linden<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

"It\u2019s not that our memory is a glitchy wetware version of computer flash memory; it\u2019s that the computer metaphor just doesn\u2019t apply. Roediger said we store only bits and pieces of what happened\u2014a smattering of impressions we weave together into feels like a seamless narrative. When we retrieve a memory, we also rewrite it, so that the time next we go to remember it, we don\u2019t retrieve the original memory but the last one we recollected."<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTime on the Brain: How You Are Always Living In the Past, and Other Quirks of Perception | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tI always knew we humans have a rather tenuous grip on the concept of time, but I never realized quite how tenuous it was until a …\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Google+:<\/strong> View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fascinating stuff. \u00a0We are all storytellers to ourselves — coordinating current preceptions into a meaningful, functional whole, and recalling them later in still more of an interpreted gestalt than a detailed video. \u00a0We attempt to draw meaning and coherency from the world, which is both a great strength and a great weakness in various circumstances. … Continue reading “Memory, time, and the brain”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10225,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/08\/memory.html","url_meta":{"origin":28582,"position":0},"title":"Memory …","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-Aug-06 2:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Total Recall. 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