![]() ![]() Not so apparent, but no less real, are memory changes in old age. Physical changes in the body from rapid growth in childhood to senescence in later years, are easily seen. The ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Heraclitus argued that change is a constant of nature, and all of us are subject to change. I am looking forward to showing you what movies can teach us about memory. Still, I believe that we can learn a lot about memory from popular films, if we watch them with an educated eye. Many of us love watching movies because they offer an unparalleled opportunity for entertainment, even if entertaining films are not always scientifically accurate. To facilitate your understanding, I will use clips from numerous films to illustrate different aspects of memory – describing what has been learned about memory in a nontechnical way for people with no prior background in psychology. ![]() ![]() Based on my recent book – Memory and Movies: What Films Can Teach Us About Memory (MIT Press, 2015) – I will provide an introduction to the scientific study of human memory by focusing on a select group of topics that hold widespread appeal. I want to show you how memory works, why it sometimes fails, and what we can do to enhance it. Someone once said that memory is fascinating because sometimes we forget what we want to remember, sometimes we remember what we want to forget, and sometimes we remember events that never happened or never happened the way we remember them. ![]()
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