Video and Audio

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Video Clips

Memories Are Made of This

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.

How Memory Works

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.

Information Processing Model: Sensory, Working, and Long-Term Memory

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 Lecture in Psychology – Working Memory: Theories, Models, and Controversies

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.

Clive Wearing: Living Without Memory

The story of Clive Wearing, who is unable to make new memories due to viral encephalitis.

Long-Term Memory: Procedural, Semantic and Episodic

Examples of Tulving’s classification of long term memories.

Audio Clips

What Is a Memory?

In this episode of Radiolab, find out why memory is a “concrete thing made of matter.”

Mind Wandering and Working Memory

Scientific American presents research on mind wandering and working memory capacity.

How We Remember

Stories about memory from PRI’s To the Best of Our Knowledge.

Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away

Explores memory encoding benefits of note-taking in longhand rather than a laptop.