Your Memory Is Like A Camcorder -- Here's How To Turn It On

The “on” switch for your brain’s camcorder, according to this study, is knowing that you must recall the information. The fine-tuning of this memory mechanism is more precise than we realize, so much so that we can remember a specific detail about a thing or event without remembering much else about it. The researchers call this “attribute amnesia.”

Wyble added, “This result is surprising because traditional theories of attention assume that when a specific piece of information is attended, that information is also stored in memory.”

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