{"id":5264,"date":"2015-02-06T18:29:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5264"},"modified":"2015-02-12T20:26:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:26:03","slug":"robinson-riegler-wwcco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/06\/robinson-riegler-wwcco\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget Robinson-Riegler answers WCCO \u2018Good Question\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/WCCO.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"109\" height=\"106\" \/>Professor <strong>Bridget Robinson-Riegler<\/strong> spoke with WCCO-TV about how humans recall their memories\u00a0for the\u00a0news station\u2019s Good Question segment. Robinson-Riegler, who teaches in the College\u2019s psychology\u00a0department, explained to television viewers that its common for\u00a0individuals to have mismemories. She commented that memories are not like tape recorders in that people\u00a0replay them exactly as they happened. Instead, memories\u00a0are reconstructed, so when the\u00a0brain encodes memories, it\u00a0encodes different pieces of different events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we go to recall it, we piece together different aspects of events,\u201d Robinson-Riegler\u00a0said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just the event that happened we\u2019re trying to remember but other events similar to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2015\/02\/05\/good-question-how-do-our-memories-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Good Question: How Do Our Memories\u00a0Work?<\/a>\u201d to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Bridget Robinson-Riegler spoke with WCCO-TV about how humans recall their memories\u00a0for the\u00a0news station\u2019s Good Question segment. Robinson-Riegler, who teaches in the College\u2019s psychology\u00a0department, explained to television viewers that its common for\u00a0individuals to have mismemories. She commented that memories are not like tape recorders in that people\u00a0replay them exactly as they happened. Instead, memories\u00a0are reconstructed, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[3495,3497,3496,2361,3088],"class_list":["post-5264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","tag-bridget-robinson-riegler","tag-good-question","tag-memories","tag-psychology","tag-wcco-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5311,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions\/5311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}