Charan Ranganath
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Professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California, Davis, where he directs the Dynamic Memory Lab, and author of Why We Remember.
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20 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The point of a good memory is not to remember more but to remember better, because forgetting most of what you experience is what human brains are built to do. (opens korrents.com)
“What I say in the book is is that you don’t want to remember more, you want to remember better, which means focusing on the things that are important. That’s what our brains are designed to do.”
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The brain does not record experience continuously; it lays down an episodic memory at moments of surprise, uncertainty and prediction error, because that is where the useful information is. (opens korrents.com)
“is this idea that we form these internal models at particular points of high prediction error or points of, I believe also points of uncertainty, points of surprise or motivationally significant periods. And those…”
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Spacing study out beats massing it: half an hour today and half an hour a week from now is retained longer than two half-hours in one day. (opens korrents.com)
“if I just try to do half-an-hour and then later in the day I do half-an-hour, I won’t retain that information as long as if I do half-an-hour today and half-an-hour one week from now. So doing that extra spacing should…”
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The point of a good memory is not to remember more but to remember better, because forgetting most of what you experience is what human brains are built to do. (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Brothers Karamazov (opens rcmnd.app)
“I love that book. One of the few books I've read. One of the few literature books that I've read, I should say. I read a lot in school that I don't remember, but Brothers Karamazov, I remember.”
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The Brothers Karamazov (opens rcmnd.app)