The most intriguing thing about this experiment? It can be repeated anywhere. So, if you have two minutes and a pen, simply repeat after us: door, door, door, door…. He mainly investigates the way in which we make decisions about our memories, and how we experience memory. Writing about everything from cosmology to anthropology, he specialises in the latest psychology and neuroscience discoveries. The quirky neuroscience behind the memory illusion.
Read more about memory and the brain: Could the human mind ever run out of memory? Sixty to 70 percent of healthy people experience this transitory mental state. People who have more education, who travel, who remember their dreams and who hold liberal beliefs are more susceptible to it. The same sensation, with exactly the same features, is often reported by patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.
In the brain , part of the temporal cortex lies just below the hippocampus. Seizure discharges from this temporal cortex simultaneously activate two circuits in the hippocampus. One circuit monitors our ongoing experience of the outer world.
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