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Future · 18 min

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By Charan Ranganath PhD

This episode challenges the conventional view of memory, revealing it not as a passive archive, but as an active, reconstructive system designed to predict and shape our future, fundamentally altering our relationship with our past.

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“This episode challenges the conventional view of memory, revealing it not as a passive archive, but as an active, reconstructive system designed to predict and shape our future, fundamentally altering our relationship with our past.”

— Charan Ranganath PhD, Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

What it is about

memory, neuroscience, cognitive science

Who it is for

Best suited to listeners who want a clearer working understanding of memory, neuroscience, cognitive science and better judgment in how they apply it.

The author

Charan Ranganath PhD brings a credible and useful lens to memory, neuroscience, cognitive science, with enough subject command to make the book worth hearing.

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Charan Ranganath PhD

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