Alison Winter on History of Memory

Alison Winter
Interviewer: 
Anne Strainchamps
Guest(s): 
Alison Winter
Producer(s): 
Steve Paulson
11.04.2012

Do you think your memory is like a video camera - a device that can record and store every experience you've ever had?  Historian Alison Winter says we tend to use technology metaphors to think about memory.  And as technology changes, so do our ideas about how memory works.

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Submitted by dr. xylem galadhon (not verified) on Mon, 11/12/2012 - 11:24pm

hi - the URL for Prof. Winter's U.Chicago website is wrong, please correct it! thx, -X

Submitted by lzimmerman on Tue, 11/13/2012 - 2:49pm

The URL is fixed.  Thanks for the notice!

Laura Zimmerman
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Wisconsin Public Radio

Submitted by Ted (not verified) on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 10:10pm

Alison Winter might be interested to learen of recent research on erasing, not just the emotional associations of memories, but the memories themselves. See this article for more information:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/02/ff_forgettingpill/all/

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