and i want to show you a video done by elizabeth loftus of a car accident and then i ask you afterwards how fast were the cars going when they contacted eachother ? give me an answer, and if i instead said how fast were the cars going when they crashed, when they smashed into each other you can probably say they were going faster. so here's the deal, what happens after we remember something influences how we later restore it. we can only capture what we pay attention to in the first place if i witness something, if i experience something, my brain is not a video camera. my memories are scoring a constant stream of every site and sound, i'm only going to capture certain parts or slices ofwhat happens . so to begin with my memory is biased and distorted from what someone else sees. so a 54-year-old man witnessing something but notice different elements and a 22-year-old woman. your memories of the same event will differ to begin with . here's the weird part of our brain. every time we recall a memory for what happened, we have the ability to add, subtract, bring in new information so if i

and i want to show you a video done by elizabeth loftus of a car accident and then i ask you afterwards how fast were the cars going when they contacted eachother ? give me an answer, and if i instead said how fast were the cars going when they crashed, when they smashed into each other you can probably say they were going faster. so here's the deal, what happens after we remember something influences how we later restore it. we can only capture what we pay attention to in the first place if i witness something, if i experience something, my brain is not a video camera. my memories are scoring a constant stream of every site and sound, i'm only going to capture certain parts or slices ofwhat happens . so to begin with my memory is biased and distorted from what someone else sees. so a 54-year-old man witnessing something but notice different elements and a 22-year-old woman. your memories of the same event will differ to begin with . here's the weird part of our brain. every time we recall a memory for what happened, we have the ability to add, subtract, bring in new information so if i