{"id":23767,"date":"2016-03-19T20:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T03:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-latest-findings-on-memory"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:38:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:38:48","slug":"the-latest-findings-on-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-latest-findings-on-memory","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Findings on Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/maPN_4BF9x8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fact that some people remember the past as a series of episodes full of details (episodic memory), while others store in their brains the meaning of events (semantic memory), has a lot to do with <strong>the configuration of the connections in the brain<\/strong>, according to a recent study published in the journal Cortex. <strong>Neuroscience<\/strong> is deciphering the sophisticated mechanisms of human memory to explain how we file and remember information.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 Memory\u2019s unreliable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 Oh please!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 No, no, really! Memory\u2019s not perfect. (\u2026) Memory can change the shape of a room. It can change the color of a car and memories can be distorted. Memories are just an interpretation. They\u2019re not a record. They\u2019re irrelevant if you have the facts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the conversation between Leonard and Teddy in the key scene of the movie <strong><em>Memento<\/em><\/strong>, one of the movies that best reflects the neuroscientific knowledge about memory. Its main character suffers from <strong>anterograde amnesia<\/strong>, which though it allows him to remember new words, he is unable to remember the recent past.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbvaopenmind.com\/en\/the-latest-findings-on-memory\/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=techreview&utm_campaign=MITcompany&utm_content=MemoryBrain\">https:\/\/www.bbvaopenmind.com\/en\/the-latest-findings-on-memor...emoryBrain<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that some people remember the past as a series of episodes full of details (episodic memory), while others store in their brains the meaning of events (semantic memory), has a lot to do with the configuration of the connections in the brain, according to a recent study published in the journal Cortex. Neuroscience [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62335,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23767\/revisions\/62335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}