Professor Steve Joordens is a psychologist who specializes in research in memory and consciousness. He explains what ‘cognitive’ and ‘cognition’ mean, and how these relate to memory and memories. He describes how he researches memory and some of the advances he has made, along with his PhD student, Dwayne Paré. He explains how memory works, how the brain stores memories and how it retrieves them. He talks about what happens when we forget something, and how we can use knowledge of how memory works to help us make the best of it. He talks about how aging affects the way the brain stores and rec
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