Memory and Forgetting

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2007

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This hour of Radiolab, a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:02.7	From New York Public Radio.
0:04.5	Public Radio.
0:05.7	W. N.Y.C.
0:10.7	And NPR.
0:12.0	This is Radio Lab. I'm Chad Abumrod.
0:13.9	And I'm Robert Krollwich.
0:15.1	And today, our program is about memory.
0:18.4	Oh, my God.
0:19.7	Hello.
0:20.0	Hello.
0:20.2	Hello. Hello. Yeah, we're the radio people?
0:21.6	Yeah, please.
0:22.2	You want to see the furniture?
0:23.4	I think most people think about memory, kind of like a filing cabinet.
0:28.6	A file cabinet in your brain.
0:30.6	I'm looking for a fairly large capacity.
0:32.6	This is traditional style.
0:34.6	Something happens in your life.
0:35.6	This is real wood.
0:36.6	Yeah, this is real wooden files. And file it away. Oh, this is pretty good. Yeah. Then later, when you want to remember something, you flip back through the files. There's the one. This one? Yeah, pick it up. Oh, yes, I recall. And there it is. That's the memory. Can you lock it? Yeah.
0:55.0	We have the key.
	...

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