Sana Qadar: In his time as a parent, Charan Ranganath has planned a lot of birthday parties. Sana Qadar: That's a good segue to talking about memories, fallibility, and how unreliable it can be at times, which is so strange to me, like especially the fact that you know, you alter a memory every time you recall it, which makes …
For Marcel Proust, it was the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea that triggered vivid childhood recollections. The pertinent question, then, is not “why do we forget?” but “why do we remember?” Malleable memories Memory, as he illustrates, transcends a mere recollection of the past; it is a lens through which we perceive ourselves and the world, guiding what …
Why forgetting is beneficial Getty Images There are upsides to our imperfect memories Imperfect memory and false recollections are essential elements of a flexible mind, argues neuroscientist Charan Ranganath in a new book. "Memory," writes neuroscientist Charan Ranganath in his new book Why We Remember, "is much, much more than an archive of the past; it is the prism through …
