Can we implant and alter memories deliberately? It’s a recurring theme in our pop culture, from Total Recall to Christopher Nolan’s Inception. The preliminary answer to that is a theoretical Yes. There’s a famous saying from a relatively new branch of psychology called Narrative Psychology: “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.” This… Read more »
A psychologist friend once told me, very emphatically, “The mind is not a storage cabinet, Wahn. It’s a receiving and transmitting device.” She was referring, of course, to the subject of memory. We now know that information and experiences are not ‘stored’ in the brain in neat little packages, located in some corner of the… Read more »
I like to tell the story of how when I first moved to the U.S. from my birthplace in South Korea, the first English-language ad I ever saw was Tony the Tiger, selling Frosted Flakes. Now was this actually the first ad I ever saw? Probably not. But it’s the most memorable, because I had… Read more »