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Memory and Forgetting

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Published April 26, 2024 9:00am

Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. This hour: a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten.

The act of recalling in our minds something that happened in the past is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process--it’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated, and false ones added. Then, Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his 7-second memory.

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