We talk about memory as a record of the past: but we aren’t supposed to remember everything. In fact, we’re designed to forget. We talk about memory as a record of the past, over the course of twenty-five years, eminent neuroscientist, Charan Ranganath, director of the Memory amen Plasticity Program at the University of California, Davis, studied the seemingly selective and unreliable nature of human memory to find that our brains haven’t evolved to keep a comprehensive record of events, but to extract the information needed to guide our futures. Why We Remember, unveils the principles behind what and why … Continue reading Attention, intention, imagination and emotion play in the storing of memories