Memory is influenced by context from "summary" of Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
Our memories are not isolated mental snapshots that we can pluck out of our minds at will. Instead, they are deeply intertwined with the context in which we experience them. This means that remembering something is not just a matter of retrieving a piece of information stored in our brains; it also involves recreating the circumstances in which that information was originally learned.
When we recall a memory, we are essentially reconstructing it based on the cues and associations that our brains have formed with that information. These cues can be anything from the physical environment in which we first encountered the information to the emotional state we were in at the time. In other words, memory is not a static repository of facts; it is a dynamic process that is constantly shaped by the context in which it is retrieved.
This has important implications for how we think about memory and learning. For example, if we want to im...
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