The Reminiscence Bump, The Tetris Effect, and Why We Have Tree-Lined City Streets
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn about the “reminiscence bump” that explains why you pine for your teens and 20s; the “Tetris Effect” that explains why things you focus on appear in your dreams; and the 19th-century doctor you can thank for tree-lined city streets.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- The Reminiscence Bump is Why You Pine for the Days of Your Youth — https://curiosity.im/2I0WTWb
- The Tetris Effect Is When Things You Focus On Appear In Your Dreams — https://curiosity.im/2HWC8Lq
- Like Tree-Lined City Streets? Thank This 19th-Century Doctor — https://curiosity.im/2HZMtGy
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.0 | Today you learn about the term for why you remember your teens and 20s so fondly, |
| 0:11.0 | the Tetris effect that explains why things you focus on appear in your dreams, |
| 0:15.0 | and the 19th century doctor you can thank for tree-lined city streets. |
| 0:19.0 | It's also Cody's birthday! |
| 0:21.0 | Happy birthday, Cody! |
| 0:22.0 | Well, thank you. Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:25.2 | There's a term for why you put so much stock in the things that happened in your |
| 0:29.5 | youth. It's called the reminiscence bump and scientists have some theories as to why this happens and it's appropriate that we talk about this story on Cody's birthday |
| 0:38.2 | Because I love birthdays. You're firmly out of the reminiscence bump though, right? |
| 0:43.0 | Like you're not gonna remember today at all. |
| 0:45.4 | Are you calling the old? |
| 0:46.6 | Is that what's happening right now? |
| 0:48.8 | Maybe. |
| 0:49.4 | I remember some awesome parties I had in my 20s. |
| 0:52.2 | For sure. For my birthday. But I had in my 20s for my birthday but I did love my teens |
| 0:55.0 | and 20s and you know what right now we're recording this for posterity and you're |
| 0:59.4 | gonna have this study |
| 1:03.0 | study comes from the 1970s. Are you sure it's unlike you? That's when |
| 1:10.8 | psychology researchers ran a study where they took a bunch of participants and they were basically like, |
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