Great courses (DVD). Science. Neuroscience & psychology

Course Number 10290

Over the course of these 12 fascinating lectures, you'll come to understand why everything you experience in this life is an illusion--nothing more and nothing less than an interpretation of signals received, assembled, and reassembled over and over, and over again, by your brain. This might sound like the plot of a sci-fi thriller or a terrifying novel. But the pliability--and even unreliability--of your memory is no accident. Six hundred million years of evolution have brought you what you have today: the best memory for Homo sapiens. Yes, you hate it when you can't remember where you put your car keys. But through this course, you'll come to realize that each of the obvious negatives of your memory has a flip side that supports your ability to survive and thrive

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Includes course guidebook (72 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

12 courses approximately 29 minutes each

Gabrielle F. Principe

DVD

Closed-captioned

Disc 1: Surprising pliability of memory -- Context: the connective tissue of memory -- Expectation, perception, and memory -- Attention: you remember what you notice -- False memory: remembering what didn't happen -- How biases distort what we remember -- Disc 2: Repressed memory wars -- Things you'll forget and why -- Memories of emotional experiences -- Changing your memories on purpose -- Memory, evidence, and the law -- Virtues of misremembering