Memory
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SR: For example, one group in our lab was able to find the brain cells that make up a fear
memory
and converted them into a pleasurable memory, just like that.
It's a Keynote Gold 84k, and the 84k stands for it had 84 kilobytes of
memory.
I think there's more
memory
in my watch.
Sadly, he died in a light plane crash in 2005, but his
memory
lives on in my heart.
I'd written my first coauthored labor law book on a typewriter in 1979 purely from
memory.
This now allowed me to read back what I'd written and to enter the computer world, even with its 84k of
memory.
So if I ask you to access a memory, like, what is that?
I study
memory.
I've studied
memory
for decades.
What do you do?" and I say "I study memory," they usually want to tell me how they have trouble remembering names, or they've got a relative who's got Alzheimer's or some kind of
memory
problem, but I have to tell them I don't study when people forget.
Unhappily, Steve Titus is not the only person to be convicted based on somebody's false
memory.
And when those cases have been analyzed, three quarters of them are due to faulty memory, faulty eyewitness
memory.
Like the jurors who convicted those innocent people and the jurors who convicted Titus, many people believe that
memory
works like a recording device.
Memory
works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.
I first started studying this constructive
memory
process in the 1970s.
And so what these studies are showing is that when you feed people misinformation about some experience that they may have had, you can distort or contaminate or change their
memory.
We get misinformation not only if we're questioned in a leading way, but if we talk to other witnesses who might consciously or inadvertently feed us some erroneous information, or if we see media coverage about some event we might have experienced, all of these provide the opportunity for this kind of contamination of our
memory.
In the 1990s, we began to see an even more extreme kind of
memory
problem.
In one of the first studies we did, we used suggestion, a method inspired by the psychotherapy we saw in these cases, we used this kind of suggestion and planted a false
memory
that when you were a kid, five or six years old, you were lost in a shopping mall.
And we succeeded in planting this
memory
in the minds of about a quarter of our subjects.
So in a study done in Tennessee, researchers planted the false
memory
that when you were a kid, you nearly drowned and had to be rescued by a life guard.
And in a study done in Canada, researchers planted the false
memory
that when you were a kid, something as awful as being attacked by a vicious animal happened to you, succeeding with about half of their subjects.
And in a study done in Italy, researchers planted the false memory, when you were a kid, you witnessed demonic possession.
I do want to add that it might seem like we are traumatizing these experimental subjects in the name of science, but our studies have gone through thorough evaluation by research ethics boards that have made the decision that the temporary discomfort that some of these subjects might experience in these studies is outweighed by the importance of this problem for understanding
memory
processes and the abuse of
memory
that is going on in some places in the world.
Well, to my surprise, when I published this work and began to speak out against this particular brand of psychotherapy, it created some pretty bad problems for me: hostilities, primarily from the repressed
memory
therapists, who felt under attack, and by the patients whom they had influenced.
She accused her mother of sexual abuse based on a repressed
memory.
When I got back to my work, I asked this question: if I plant a false
memory
in your mind, does it have repercussions?
Our first study planted a false
memory
that you got sick as a child eating certain foods: hard-boiled eggs, dill pickles, strawberry ice cream.
And we found that once we planted this false memory, people didn't want to eat the foods as much at an outdoor picnic.
If we planted a warm, fuzzy
memory
involving a healthy food like asparagus, we could get people to want to eat asparagus more.
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