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Video Clips
In this video from Big Think, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio describes how the brain records events.
Talk about the reconstructive nature of memory. Instead of recording every event in your life, the brain records conjunctions of the occurrence of certain events. Out of the conjunction, it can then replay and reconstruct.
The story of Clive Wearing, who is unable to make new memories due to viral encephalitis.
A discussion of what it must feel like to be a severely amnestic person living a life with no new declarative memories.
How our brain takes in and makes sense of information in our environment. An overview of the information processing model in terms of sensory, working, and long term memory.
A description of the evolving approaches to understanding memory over the course of the 20th century, and how the multi-component approach to working memory as a theoretical framework was developed. How the model links to long-term memory, perception, and action, and how they interact.
An examination of whether the brain's two major memory systems, implicit and explicit, have any common features. How implicit and explicit memory both have a short-term and long-term components.
Audio Clips
In this episode of Radiolab, find out why memory is a “concrete thing made of matter.”
Scientific American presents research on mind wandering and working memory capacity.
Stories about memory from PRI’s To the Best of Our Knowledge.
