The Making of a Spotless Mind
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- Abstract / Summary
- How close are we to the selective memory engineering depicted in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? Perhaps closer than you think. Neuroscientist Todd Sacktor demonstrates a drug that inhibits a chemical reaction between synapses, causing memories—even very old ones—to fall apart. The brain, in effect, returns to a “blank slate.” Understanding this process opens the door for someday being able to selectively erase memories in the human brain.
- Field of Interest
- Psychology
- Content Type
- Lecture/presentation
- Format
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- URL
- http://worldsciencefestival.com/videos/the_making_of_a_spotless_mind
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Subject
- Psychology, Social Sciences, Psychology & Counseling, Cognitive Psychology, Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction, Repeated Measures, Observation Methods, Repeated Measures, Observation Methods, Psicología Cognitiva, Psicologia Cognitiva, Elizabeth F. Loftus, 1944-, Intelligence, Cognition, and Memory
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Psicología Cognitiva, Psicologia Cognitiva