• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer
  • WordPress
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
Science Update

Science Update

Sharing Science | Satisfying Curiosity | Debunking BS

  • Spotlights
  • Reality Check
  • Why Is It?
  • Radio Archives
  • Sciup @ School
Home » Radio Archive » Daily Show » Future Amnesia

Future Amnesia

January 31, 2007
https://podcast.scienceupdate.com/070131_sciup_futu.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window

BOB HIRSHON (host):
How amnesia clouds the future. I’m Bob Hirshon and this is Science Update.

Some people with amnesia not only forget past experiences, but also can’t envision future ones. This according to neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire of University College London and her colleagues.

ELEANOR MAGUIRE (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London):
They were very impaired at imagining both fictitious events, such as lying on a sandy beach, but also experiences that might actually happen to them in the future, such as the next time you’re going to meet a friend, for example.

HIRSHON:
Her subjects all had damage to a part of the brain called the hippocampus, a known center of memory. And while they couldn’t fully imagine a new experience, they could describe specific details, like the sand on a beach. This suggests that the hippocampus may organize all mental images—including memories and fantasies—into coherent pictures.

I’m Bob Hirshon, for AAAS, the science society.

Category: Daily ShowTag: Brain Science
Previous Post:The Vestigial Appendix
Next Post:Alzheimer’s and Herpes

Sidebar

Radio Program Archives

Want to learn more about the brain? The environment? Here you can browse the topics that come up regularly on Science Update.

Search the Archives

Categories

  • Daily Show
  • Station Download
  • Weekly Show

Find By Tag

  • 2020
  • Acoustics & Sound
  • Aging
  • Animal Behavior
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Astronomy & Space
  • Biology
  • Brain Science
  • Bugs
  • Chemistry
  • Children & Families
  • cicadas
  • Climate & Weather
  • Communications
  • Computer Science
  • Economics & Business
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Engineering & Technology
  • Environment & Conservation
  • Genetics & Evolution
  • Geology
  • Marine Science
  • Materials Science
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine & Health
  • Microbiology
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nutrition & Food Science
  • Paleontology & Dinosaurs
  • Physics
  • Plants & Agriculture
  • Political Science
  • Reality Check
  • Social & Behavioral Sciences
  • Sports & Fitness
  • spotlight
  • Spotlight Bugs
  • Terrorism & War
  • Why Is It? Questions
  • Wildlife
  • Year in Review

Find By Date

Science Update
  • About Science Update
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • YouTube

Recent Posts

Mayan Honeybee hives
House sparrow wearing top hat rides aboard a red fireworks rocket

Copyright © 2023 · Springtail Media LLC · All Rights Reserved · Powered by Pongos