Charan Ranganath (on memory)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Charan Ranganath (Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters) is a neuroscientist. Charan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the mechanics of memory, how AI learning is different than human learning, and the influence that present context has on memories. Charan and Dax talk about the relationship of imagination to memory, the problems with hypnosis, and repressed memories. Charan explains how sleep can conceptualize memories, the ways photos can influence memories, and how traumatic memories affect the brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to arm chair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Rather and I'm joined by Mrs. Mouse.
0:07.0	Hello. Today we have... What a unique guest? We don't interview a lot of
0:13.4	neuroscientists who are in a neuroscientist punk band.
0:17.0	I think we only the one.
0:19.0	I think this is our first.
0:20.0	Charin Rongenoff, who is a professor at UC Davis in cognitive neuroscience,
0:25.2	where he leads the dynamic memory lab. So Charin is one of the foremost experts in the world
0:31.3	about memory.
0:32.6	We're all obsessed with memory I think.
0:34.8	We are obsessed slash concerned.
0:37.9	I think generally if people are talking to their memory they're worried.
0:41.0	Well because we know and he says in here know, basically not if you have dementia.
0:45.4	You essentially, you're losing most.
0:46.9	20%.
0:47.9	Yeah.
0:49.0	We interviewed him and then I went and brought the girls up to set and then we went to Goldberger and we ate outside and then we got home that night and I was thinking about this episode and then I was thinking like, oh yeah, I can picture when we were in front of Goldberger and there was three tables and the middle table was three people eating and I can see them and how
1:11.1	fucking weird is that that your brain can do that.
1:14.0	There's probably something that was novel about it that made you remember it though.
1:18.0	What a mystery.
1:19.0	That had happened, but yet I can look at it right now.
1:21.0	It's just so weird.
1:22.0	It's very cool. Anyways, his new book it right now. It's just so weird. It's very cool.
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