Lost Memories (TED talk)
For our TALONS English 9 and Science 9/10 final project: This is my TED talk on infantile amnesia.
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June 17, 2011 @ 11:31 pm
First of all, it didn’t look like you were reading off of anything and you were talking very naturaly and engagingly, but there were a lot of background noises and you occasionaly stumbled on words and mispronounced things. I would recomend doing more takes of the presentation so that you get even more comfortable with the words. You could also break it in the middle or in quaters so you don’t have to retake as much if you make a big mistake.
I really liked how the talk moved from subject to subject. There were very smooth transitions and it kept moving forward at a gradual pace. Also you gave evidence for every single point you made, right after you made it.
I was very interested in the part about memories fading as people get older. When they are remembering a memory or a memory of a memory. (Inception). I read that every time we remember something we reimagine it and scrap the original memory, so every time the memory is slightly different and slowly exagerates itself and becomes less like the original experience. Is that linked to memories fading as we get older?
It could also have to do with the forming of false memories. If we imagine something over and over enough, it would be just like remembering something over and over because repeated memories aren’t always very acurate or detailed, yet we trust them, so we would also trust our imagination.
June 19, 2011 @ 9:57 am
Great TED Talk Iris.
Amnesia and forgetting are fascinating topics. Have gone In-Depth in your research to come upon why we forget most of our dreams but remember most of our real-life memories? Why are over 90% of the dreams we have forgotten within a few minutes of waking up and a few dreams implanted deep within our memories?
June 19, 2011 @ 3:09 pm
Oh, you little scientific kid, you.
Also? That blows my mind like WHOA.
When you were talking about recovering memories, how do you know when a recovered memory is false or not? On that note, would it be possible to convince yourself (or someone else, I suppose, if you felt like being a creepy movie villian) what kind of person you used to be? If your experiences shape who you are, could recovering a certain memory change you?
All these things.
Seriously, though. that was kind of awesome. You sounded like you knew what you were talking about, the ideas flow together, and I felt like I understood what was going on.
You know what that means?
You made a TED talk…LIKE A BOSS.
June 19, 2011 @ 3:32 pm
That was great!
The part about the memory of a memory of a memory was especially cool. It made me think about something I’ve wondered, if a lot of my memories weren’t just derived from pictures or stories of the event that I’ve made my own.
Also, when you were talking about the study about the earliest memories, I was trying to recall my earliest memory. The funny thing is, my memories seemed so out of order that I couldn’t actually tell which was my first one. Anyway… great talk, Iris!
June 19, 2011 @ 4:30 pm
AWESOME!
I love how relaxed you seemed and how you injected all of your words with confidence and emotion. You do have to work on pronouncing all of your words all of the time though.
You worked very well through all of your sub topics. I felt as though I had a well-rounded knowledge of the subject by the time I finished watching your videos.
I think the idea of events that haven’t happened, or have been changed in your mind, becoming “true”, is very interesting. Every once in a while, I find myself telling someone a cool story, and then I realize that I don’t actually know if this event happened to me, if I read about it, or if I just made it up.
Isn’t it strange that infants and adults try to suppress negative memories, while at the same time people can tell you everything about some of the horrible moments in their lives-where they were standing, what they were wearing. Does that process start when you are older or can people recall negative memories in such detail from when they were young?
Finally, a beautifully worded ending.
June 19, 2011 @ 8:53 pm
IRIS!!!
Your TED Talk is great evidence for me to prove that females have a better memory than males!
You have great supporting details! I especially liked how you incorporated the 2005 study results because it allowed me to gain a better understanding of when we actually remember different events in our lives.
This topic also made me wonder why human beings are so certain about some in events in our childhood even though it might have been something we imagined. Is it possible for us to create a fake memories to convince ourselves(and others)of who we really are? It’s a scary thought. There are many times when I so believed that I did something in my childhood, but in reality, I did not.
GREAT TOPIC IRIS!!!
June 19, 2011 @ 9:21 pm
That was so good, Iris!
I found it sorta weird that most of our earliest memories are positive opposed to negative. I’ve always thought that more negative emotions would be more memorable than positive ones, although as I think about it more, I guess more of my earlier memories are positive ones.
The point you made about how if you’re told a certain memory enough, you are capable of creating a fake memory is really fascinating too. The story about the boy who thought he was kidnapped made me think about something that had happened to me. My parents told me when I was younger, I was bit on the face by a dog. I have absolutely no memory of this, but the more times I’ve been told it, the more I begin to think I ‘remember’ it happening. Sorta amazing how easy it is to manipulate our own memories.
It’s funny how similar our talks were. Awesome job!