Our Emotional Memory
Episode 2 of the This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg podcast, hosted by Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery, titled "Our Emotional Memory" was published on January 14, 2022 and runs 27 minutes.
January 14, 2022 ·27m · This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg
Episode Description
Where were you on 9/11, and why do you remember it so clearly? Dr. Elizabeth Phelps, a Harvard neuroscience professor who studies the effect of trauma on memory, explains how highly emotional events get stored in our brains. Find out why we are so confident that these "flashbulb memories" are completely accurate, even though the evidence suggests otherwise. Plus... the "Michael Moore effect" that can influence what we think we remember.
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