Can Anyone Engineer a Memorable Moment?

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Can Anyone Engineer a Memorable Moment? · 2:04 · Intellect Plus

In short: Attention, novelty, emotion and context all shape what we remember, but the effects are uneven, confident memories are not always consistent, and recall can be reshaped after the fact.

A 2:04 short film in the series “Rabbit Hole: Memory, Preference and the Brain”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.

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