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“Memory is a costly process for your brain, requiring much energy and attention to maintain and update. It therefore makes sense that we are set up to optimise on-the-go decision-making, even if that occasionally means blending two sources of information instead of separately quarantining them in our memory stores.”
Apr 23, 2025 09:42AM
Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember

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“Have you ever heard someone say they have difficulty identifying people who belong to a different racial category, remarking that they 'all look the same'? the cross-race effect (or own-race bias).”

I happen to have been thinking about there’s a certain racial group that exhibits limited physical diversity among its members, perhaps due to a relatively small gene pool despite its large population.
Apr 23, 2025 08:55AM
Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember


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ツツ Why wouldn’t a single semantic memory suffice in this kind of situation? How can a fabricated episodic memory prove more efficient than a factual semantic memory, given that the former's reliance on multimodal sensory, spatial, and temporal data? It sounds like 'personal experiences with contextual details' is more important than efficiency, but cost-efficiency is the sole focus discussed here.


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