How your memory works — and why forgetting is totally OK
Memory is a vital part of our everyday lives, but sometimes it fails us.
We’ve all been there — we can’t remember a person’s name, we forget where we put our keys, or we walk into a room and don’t remember why we’re there. These memory failures can be frustrating and embarrassing.
Neuroscientist Lisa Genova has written about the two types of memory failures that we experience regularly. In this talk, she reassures us that forgetting is totally normal and describes the difference between episodic and semantic memory. With this information, we can better understand why our memories fail us and learn to live with occasional memory lapses.
