Memories Archives - News and Media /news/tag/memories/ Augsburg University Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:26:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 Bridget Robinson-Riegler answers WCCO ‘Good Question’ /news/2015/02/06/robinson-riegler-wwcco/ Fri, 06 Feb 2015 18:29:27 +0000 http://www.augsburg.edu/news/?p=5264 Professor Bridget Robinson-Riegler spoke with WCCO-TV about how humans recall their memories for the news station’s Good Question segment. Robinson-Riegler, who teaches in the College’s psychology department, explained to television viewers that its common for individuals to have mismemories. She commented that memories are not like tape recorders in that people replay them exactly as they happened. Instead, memories are reconstructed, ...

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]]> Professor Bridget Robinson-Riegler spoke with WCCO-TV about how humans recall their memories for the news station’s Good Question segment. Robinson-Riegler, who teaches in the College’s psychology department, explained to television viewers that its common for individuals to have mismemories. She commented that memories are not like tape recorders in that people replay them exactly as they happened. Instead, memories are reconstructed, so when the brain encodes memories, it encodes different pieces of different events.

“When we go to recall it, we piece together different aspects of events,” Robinson-Riegler said. “It’s not just the event that happened we’re trying to remember but other events similar to it.”

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