Paula Croxson: When your grandmother forgets who you are
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2013
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
When Paula Croxson began to study memory as a neuroscientist, she also learned a new way of thinking about her grandmother's failing memory.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it. |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:30.2 | A quick reminder, we'll be at the Cambridge Science Festival in Boston, April 16th. |
| 0:34.9 | Storycollider.org for more details. |
| 0:40.3 | This week's story is from Paula Croxon. The story was recorded in March 2013 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. The theme of the event was |
| 0:47.3 | Brain Awareness. |
| 0:52.3 | When I was a kid, we used to go down to see my grandma in London, about a four-hour journey. |
| 1:02.0 | We go a couple of times a year, and I really love these trips. |
| 1:08.0 | My grandma was a really loving person. |
| 1:11.6 | She was really fun to be around and she was quite mad, which just made it better for me, really. |
| 1:19.6 | And for example, we would go to the park, but we wouldn't just go to the swings and the climbing frame. |
| 1:28.3 | She'd come armed with a huge red string bag of unshelled peanuts. |
| 1:34.3 | And we'd wander off into the trees, and we'd be like, oh, the swings. |
| 1:40.3 | And she'd open the bag and all these squirrels would come pouring out of the trees and we'd feed the squirrels |
| 1:48.3 | and they were so tame they knew her they were so tame they would come up and they'd take them out of our hands |
| 1:54.0 | and this was way better than anything we could have imagined so so you know then we would we would, on our way home, she would run across |
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