welcome
About us
Newsletter
News Widget
Media Inquiries

Summary

Memory Errors and Dementia

This is a news story, published by Yahoo, that relates primarily to Daniel Kahneman news.

Daniel Kahneman news

For more Daniel Kahneman news, you can click here:

more Daniel Kahneman news

biology news

For more biology news, you can click here:

more biology news

Yahoo news

For more news from Yahoo, you can click here:

more news from Yahoo

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best science news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like biology news, you might also like this article about

faulty mental processing

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest memory errors news, cognition news, biology news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

human memory
The Conversation

The Conversation

•

Science

Science

Misremembering might actually be a sign your memory is working optimally

The Conversation
Summary
Nutrition label

82% Informative

Are memory mistakes a bad thing, resulting from faulty mental processing? Or, counterintuitively, could they be a good thing, a desirable side effect of a cognitive system with limited capacity working efficiently? We’re leaning toward the latter that memory errors may actually indicate a way in which the human cognitive system is “optimal” or “rational” Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky argued that human cognition is not optimal.

Robert Jacobs : When you place an item in memory, it’s as if you’re sending a message to your future self.

Jacobs: This channel has limited capacity, and thus it cannot transmit all details of a message.

People tend to remember the general gist of an item placed in memory while forgetting its fine details.

Jacobs says memory should be the best it can be within limited circumstances.

VR Score

82

Informative language

80

Neutral language

44

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

59

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

long-living

External references

28

https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029856https://memberservices.theconversation.com/newsletters/?source=inline-140Khttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Fl7EBc8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=aohttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.02.015https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-53238-1.00004-1https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahnemanhttps://theconversation.com/people-use-mental-shortcuts-to-make-difficult-decisions-even-highly-trained-doctors-delivering-babies-168711https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tverskyhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01780.xhttps://doi.org/10.1167/19.2.11http://theconversation.com/brian-williams-told-a-tale-but-it-could-be-how-he-really-remembers-what-happened-37447?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=related-link&utm_campaign=related-link1&utm_content=article-166089https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1900061Xhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2004.02.002https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374533557/thinking-fast-and-slowhttp://theconversation.com/total-recall-sounds-great-but-some-things-should-be-forgotten-51715?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=related-link&utm_campaign=related-link0&utm_content=article-166089https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/fastball-royalty-free-image/127753874https://www2.bcs.rochester.edu/sites/jacobslab/people.htmlhttps://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-rochester-1296?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=related-link&utm_campaign=byline-link&utm_content=article-166089https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/availability-heuristic/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/open-file-cabinet-with-papers-spread-out-on-the-royalty-free-image/172182617https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000197http://theconversation.com/people-use-mental-shortcuts-to-make-difficult-decisions-even-highly-trained-doctors-delivering-babies-168711?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=related-link&utm_campaign=related-link2&utm_content=article-166089https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721414529144http://theconversation.com/us?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=related-link&utm_campaign=related-link-0&utm_content=article-166089https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0602-858https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/heuristics/https://theconversation.com/profiles/robert-jacobs-1257935?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=related-link&utm_campaign=byline-link&utm_content=article-166089https://doi.org/10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00116-8

Source diversity

10

doi.orgmemberservices.theconversation.comscholar.google.comen.wikipedia.orgtheconversation.comjournals.sagepub.comus.macmillan.comwww.gettyimages.comwww2.bcs.rochester.eduthedecisionlab.com

Affiliate links

no affiliate links

Read full article