Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 10/05/2018 - 10:24
Dr. Jon Simons was invited to deliver a Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution in London recently on the subjective experience of remembering.
The ability to remember personally experienced events in vivid, multisensory detail makes an immensely important contribution to our lives, allowing us to re-live each moment of a previous encounter and providing us with the store of precious memories that form the building blocks of who we are. Drawing on inspiration from philosophers and novelists, Jon considered the latest evidence from functional neuroimaging and studies of patients with neurological and psychiatric conditions, which is beginning to shed light on the brain mechanisms responsible for the subjective experience of remembering.
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