TED talk – Elizabeth Loftus: The fiction of memory

Memory-manipulation expert Elizabeth Loftus explains how our memories might not be what they seem — and how implanted memories can have real-life repercussions. Elisabeth doesn’t study memory loss, but rather, false memories, and how our memory or recall can be so different to the reality of an event. What the implication of this is on…

Remembering to remember

TED says of speaker and writer Joshua Foer, “In 2005 science writer Joshua Foer went to cover the U.S. Memory Championship. A year later he was back — as contestant. A year of mental training with Europe’s top memorizer turned into a book, Moonwalking with Einstein, which is both a chronicle of his immersion in the memory…