The Neuroscience of How to Improve Your Memory & Focus - Dr Charan Ranganath (Video)
In this 10 May 2025 Modern Wisdom video, host Chris Williamson talks with Dr. Charan Ranganath, a cognitive neuroscientist, professor, and an author.
What are memories? Our brains are shaped by countless experiences, but how exactly do we store these stories? Learn what makes some memories stick, why others fade, and how our minds handle the ones we’d rather forget.
Expect to learn why memory is important, what the difference is between the experiencing self and the remembering self, How human memory works, why we remember some events so clearly and others vaguely or not at all, how we can make ourselves forget, the best memory improvement techniques, what the relationship between memory and novel experiences is, how our memories shaped by our social interactions, and more.
https://youtu.be/8ubgcxod8Kc
00:00 Why is Memory Important?
01:23 The Experiencing Self Vs the Remembering Self
07:00 Inside the Brains of Super-Rememberers
10:23 How Does Human Memory Work?
12:11 What Predicts Whether We Will Remember Something?
22:24 Similarities Between Memory & Breathing
26:50 Why Do We Forget Things?
32:43 Fundamentals of Training Memory
36:15 Explaining Error-Driven Learning
45:29 Experiencing Things Worth Remembering
51:44 Relationship Between Emotions & Memory
57:57 Can You Learn Something If You Can’t Remember Doing it?
1:00:54 Novelty & Intensity For Memory
1:04:24 Memory & the Passage of Time
1:07:46 Myths to Dispel About Memory
1:11:03 Where to Find Charan
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