Alan Castel
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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful…
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Seeing something many times does not put it into memory: familiarity with a thing and knowledge of it are different, and people confuse the two constantly. (opens korrents.com)
“And I think that illustrates also how our memory works. That just seeing something many times doesn't mean you'll remember it well. And this is a classic demonstration that, you know, you've seen a penny many times.…”
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Learning should be made harder rather than easier, and a teacher's instinct to smooth the path is the first thing that goes wrong. (opens korrents.com)
“How can you make learning kind of uncomfortable, but that you'll remember things better? And it goes against a lot of our intuitions. A lot of teachers will want to say, how can we make learning easier? And I think…”
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There is no such thing as photographic memory: people with exceptional visual memory still make ordinary memory errors. (opens korrents.com)
“the research on photographic memory does show that even people who have very strong visual memory will make memory errors. So it's not that you know it's exactly photographic but their visual memory is exceptional.”
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Seeing something many times does not put it into memory: familiarity with a thing and knowledge of it are different, and people confuse the two constantly. (opens korrents.com)