Ep 38: How Humans Form Memories to Live Adaptively

Raising Good Humans

Dear Media, Aliza Pressman

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🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Speaking with neuroscientist, Professor Andre Fenton about how memories form, what we think happens during sleep, and what you can do to support forming the kinds of memories that will help you live more adaptively based on your experiences. Plus listener Q and A with Dr. Aliza.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:05.0	Welcome to Raising Good Humans.
0:08.0	I'm Dr. Eliza Pressman and I'm here with Professor Andre Fenton
0:12.0	who is a professor of
0:13.6	neuroscience at New York University and the director
0:17.0	of the Neurobiology of Cognition Lab
0:20.8	and co-investigator of the NYU baby sleep study.
0:24.0	So one thing that we're going to talk about is Professor Fenton's
0:30.0	contribution to the literature on how the brain stores memory.
0:35.3	And now, you know, kind of what research is saying about that.
0:39.8	So I'd love to hear from you how the brain stores memories and what happens to the brain during
0:46.0	sleep.
0:47.0	Okay, well, thanks for having me on and for the conversation. You know the truth is we don't actually know that much
0:56.7	about how the brain does many of it's what you would consider to be normal
1:01.3	activities including storing memories.
1:04.9	But we know how to think about it and we know quite a lot of data.
1:09.3	I like to describe it as, you know, we sort of know the tip of the iceberg but there's you know a lot below
1:14.9	the surface that we're trying to sift through. So you know one of the to me wonderful
1:21.4	things about thinking about memory or even understanding
1:24.7	memory it's something we often obsess about and we think we should try and
1:29.8	maximize and seem to care about.
1:33.6	But it's just something that brains do.
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