From a fascinating episode of the radio show Radiolab:
According to the latest research, remembering 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. And Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his 7 second memory.
The show contains 3 short segments, each posted separately, and described on the page in further detail:
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Rat- about the physical aspect of recorded memories and one neuroscientist who erases memory from rats
- Adding Memory- about implanting memories and finding lost memories
- Clive- neurologist Oliver Sacks on the "most severe case of amnesia ever documented"
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