"We all look through family albums. We all hear stories at the dinner table. ... They become incorporated into what we believe we actually remember." — Scott Fraser Marc Grimberg/Getty Images hide caption
"We all look through family albums. We all hear stories at the dinner table. ... They become incorporated into what we believe we actually remember." — Scott Fraser
Marc Grimberg/Getty ImagesMemory is malleable, dynamic and elusive. In this hour, TED speakers discuss how a nimble memory can improve your life, and how a frail one might ruin someone else's.
Memory is malleable, dynamic and elusive. In this hour, TED speakers discuss how a nimble memory can improve your life, and how a frail one might ruin someone else's.
Forensic psychologist Scott Fraser says, "all of our memories, put simply, are reconstructed memories." TEDxUSC hide caption
Daniel Kahneman says, "we tend to confuse memories with the real experience that gave rise to those memories." James Duncan Davidson/TED / James Duncan Davidson hide caption
Joshua Foer says that one past memory champion developed a technique to remember more than 4,000 binary digits in half an hour. James Duncan Davidson hide caption
