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Memory and Forgetting

A look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten...

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KCRW placeholderBy Jad Abumrad • Jan 9, 2011 • 1 min read

Remembering is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process. It’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated and false ones added. Plus, Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his seven-second memory.

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    Jad Abumrad

    creator of "Radio Lab," and host of the new podcast “Dolly Parton’s America”

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    Robert Krulwich

    host of 'Radio Lab'

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