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Alan Castel states that human memory functions as an inherently reconstructive process. Identifying a suspect in a lineup overwrites the original mental image with the face of the chosen person.
Passively viewing the same information repeatedly fails to build actual memory retention.
“Just seeing something many times doesn't mean you'll remember it well…”
From Huberman: Your Brain Needs Struggle to Learn Effectively
Extreme confidence in a specific memory does not mean the event happened that way.
“And sometimes confidence, high confidence doesn't necessarily mean high accuracy.”
A subjective feeling of personal age frequently diverges from actual biological age.
“If you ask someone how old do you feel? That's very different than your biological age.”
Remembering an event alters the mental representation. After picking a person from a lineup, you replay the image of the chosen individual in your mind going forward.
“Memory is really a mental representation of the past and by its very nature it's reconstructive. It's never always accurate.”
“And then when you replay it again, you're replaying the person you identified, not the person you actually saw.”
Walking for 40 minutes three to four times a week can increase hippocampal volume by 1%. People maintaining this routine show significantly better memory recall a year later.
“Their memory was much better a year later…”
“People are running and that's an old one…”
From AI Scams: Why Your Brain, Not Just Elders', Is The Target
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