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I really want to blow your mind right now
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because it turns out that the science of human memory is an unbelievable area of research.
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It's so great.
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How do we actually construct memories in the past when I'm thinking about Lincoln City?
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Or for that matter, when I'm thinking about something really negative, when I'm thinking about something that actually happened.
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The way that I do that, and this is where the neuroscience gets really tricky, it's that it's not about retrieving that memory.
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You might think to yourself that like there's a little film, a little snippet of video someplace in your brain,
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and you go get that out of the archive
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and throw it into the projector and watch it again and again and again.
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But it turns out that's not right.
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What it's really about when you're dredging up memories, good or bad, is reconstruction, not retrieval.
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Every time you conjure up the past, there's a part of the parietal lobe in your brain.
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It's called the angular gyrus.
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And what it does is it it it reconstructs every episodic memory, which is a whole bunch of different things.
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There's a whole bunch of different elements to it, and they're stored in physically different locations.
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And so what your brain has to do every time you come up with a scene, like you tell a story
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or you remember a particular day that's in a whole bunch of different locations
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and you put it together new every single time time.
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That's a biological marvel, but it's prone to error.
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As you can imagine, if you have to reassemble it, reassemble it, reconstruct it, reconstruct it every single time,
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there's an opportunity as time goes by for glitches to get into that algorithm.
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And that's one of the reasons that tons of research shows that the further away a very distinct memory is from you,
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the more likely you are to screw it up as you recount it, to get it actually wrong.
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And for you to believe absolutely photographically in something that absolutely did not happen.
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Now, here's how the studies actually kind of work.
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This is a 1992 study.
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This is an article called Phantom Flash Bulbs, False Recollections of Hearing the News about Challenger.
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That's the Challenger space shuttle.
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They exploded in 1986.
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You probably heard about it.
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I remember this as a young adult when one of the space shuttles
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that went up into space and blew up before it got into orbit is really,
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really traumatic because half the country was watching it and it exploded.
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It was horrible.
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What researchers were doing, what they wanted to know was how did people actually remember it compared to what they had said had happened.
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And so right after the Challenger explosion, these researchers, they asked people to recount their experience right afterward when it was most faithfully recounted,
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a bunch of students who did that.
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And then 30 months later, All right.
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Okay.
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So two and a half years later, they went through and recounted the experience again.
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So they followed the same people for two and a half years.
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That's one of the reasons they didn't publish the article for almost four years after the challenger exploded.
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And in 93 % of the cases, the counts were completely inconsistent with each other.
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And in every one of the cases, they said, no, that's the way it happened.
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And it wasn't the way that it happened.
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And they had evidence, videotaped evidence that the same people were telling different stories.
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Now, this is really interesting, right?
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That's one of the reasons that I can tell you what happened on 9 -11.
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And it's probably the case that if I went back and saw my own recounting of it,
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had there been a videotape of me telling the story that what I'm telling today, I'm not trying to lie.
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I think it's accurate.
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But what was going on is the angular gyrus is reassembling the memories and getting glitches and getting, you know,
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leaving out little pieces of video and information is being added
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or information is being lost because of what I'm actually living through today.
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I'm inadvertently editing that.
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Now, one thing to keep in mind, you will see in popular culture a lot and in modern media
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and in journalism a lot where people will be telling about the crimes
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and terrible things that happened to them a long time in the past.
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And even in the court of law, and our legal system will ask people to testify in congressional testimony or in legal testimony.
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People will be asked to testify to things that happened to them a long time ago, by memory, sometimes decades ago.
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When we see this, those of us in the behavioral science community, we always just slap our foreheads because we're like,
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you know, journalists are so credulous about these testimonies.
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Or when people write in books, exactly a conversation they had when they were children or something is
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that we're photographic or
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when in the therapy industrial complex in this country professionals counselors
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social workers psychologists people in my line of work will ask young people to recount to dredge up old memories
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so they can actually find some evidence of trauma in their past those of us who who have studied memory
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we say that's not that's not credible and it's not because people lie it's because that's not my friends how memories work.
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Now, that's interesting enough, but that's actually really useful when you think about it, because reconstructing memories based on current experience gives us an opportunity,
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but we're not quite there yet.
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The reason our memories change is because the reconstruction of the stories of our past,
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it's we do that in accordance with current narratives and current events and current needs.
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In other words, you contaminate your memories based on what you're thinking about right now.
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That's one of the things that we think about.
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And I'll give you an example of this.
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Let's say that you have an old friend, somebody you hung out with in college and somebody you really,
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really, really liked, but it was a different time in your life.
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And, and, and let's say that your consciousness has been raised and you're a little bit ashamed about how you,
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how you behaved when you're in college.
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And if there's nothing you're ashamed of that happened when you're in college, well, you've just edited your memories.
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Your angular gyrus is, is, is going to town here.
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And so what typically will happen when people have great memories,
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but troubled memories, because you're not happy about the way that you behaved,
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you're sort of, you have regret or you have a sense of shame about great old times.
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What that will do is that will torque the way that you think about the people that were in those memories.
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You'll start to think more negatively about the people that you wouldn't have had a negative thought about at all.
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Another example of this is that, you know, college students will come home from college weirdly convinced
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that they suffered all sorts of trauma because their parents are so horrible in their political views.
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This is one of the things that we find.
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Now, this is actually a form of predation by people who are counseling young people sometimes to say, oh, really?
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Tell me about your dad.
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Tell me about your mom.
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Tell me about their political views.
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And when they hear they'll say, boy, who hurt you?
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Who hurt you?
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And all that's doing is inducing people to negatively valence memories that would not have had a negative valence otherwise,
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as the angular gyrus is reconstructing episodic memory in their post -adolescent brains.
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And it has nothing to do with post -adolescence.
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It has to do with brains more than anything else, which is one of the reasons that people will come back and say,
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I didn't realize how screwed up my family life was until I went to college.
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And the reason is
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because somebody who does not have your interests at heart was editing your memories by inducing
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you to think about a different way to dredge up these pictures
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and to valence them with a current way of thinking that they're trying to give to you.
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That's not great, but it's not even great when we do it to ourselves.
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Now, the shifting memories in a way, they're not entirely inaccurate because they're assembled from a pretty partial set of details.
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And the exact set that we remember changes every time as we dust the memory off.
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And by the way, your new politics might be right.
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The new way that you live and your new morals, they might be right.
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But it can ruin perfectly good experiences and turn them into bitterness along the way.
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It's interesting in the studies on this that we see, I'll put one in that.
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There's a really nice paper in Social Cognition called Emotion and Memory research, a grumpy overview that shows that when people are afraid,
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when you induce them to be fearful in laboratory settings, you show them scary movies,
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for example, and then you ask them to remember scenes from their own youth, they'll think about the threats from those times.
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They'll think of scary parts of those particular memories.
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But the same is true also when you make people really, really, really happy.
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And when people are full of love and they're laughing a lot, and you induce them to think about kind of negative things in their past,
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they'll find them really funny at the end of the day.
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And you know, you've had this experience.
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I promise you, you've had this experience.
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You could think about this a little bit, where you think about something awful that happened and you're with your friends
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and you're having a good time and you're telling the story.
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And it's like for the very first time you recount the story and you're cracking up while you're telling the story,
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that's because you provided a positive valence to what had been a negative memory.
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You're filling in the gaps as you reconstruct it with positivity.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节口语课以视频“The Surprising Reason Your Past Still Controls You”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：memories, memory, happened。 这段视频共有 125 个句子、1714 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 8:55。 说话人语速较快，每分钟约 192 个词，会出现较多连读和弱读。 87% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇容易理解。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中 15 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| challenger 名词 | /ˈt͡ʃælənd͡ʒəɹ/ | 挑戰者 /挑战者 |
| edit 动词 | /ˈɛdɪt/ | 編輯 /编辑 |
| testimony 名词 | /ˈtɛstɪmoʊni/ | 證言 /证言, 證詞 /证词 |
| explode 动词 | /ɪkˈsploʊd/ | 爆炸, 爆發 /爆发 |
| horrible 形容词 | /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ | 可怕的, 可畏 |
| scary 形容词 | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | 恐怖 |
| trauma 名词 | /ˈtɹɔm.ə/ | 負傷 /负伤, 損傷 /损伤 |
| ashamed 形容词 | /əˈʃeɪmd/ | 慚愧 /惭愧, 羞愧 |
| behave 动词 | /bɪˈheɪv/ | 為人 /为人 |
| reconstruction 名词 | /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/ | 重建 |
| researcher 名词 | /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ | 研究員 /研究员, 研究者 |
| shuttle 名词 | /ˈʃʌtəl/ | 梭子 |
| testify 动词 | /ˈtɛstɪfaɪ/ | 作證 /作证 |
| gap 名词 | /ɡæp/ | 間隙 /间隙 |
| awful 形容词 | /ˈɔːfʊl/ | 壞 /坏, 糟糕 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| turn out 动词 | 原來 /原来 |
| blow up 动词 | 炸掉, 爆破 |
| come back 动词 | 回來 /回来, 返回 |
| come up with 动词 | 想出, 提出 |
| go back 动词 | 回去, 返回 |
| go through 动词 | 通過 /通过 |
视频中的语法
说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：
| 结构 | 视频中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | have studied · has been raised · you've just edited |
| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | memory, which is · students who did · people who are |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | being added · being lost · will be asked |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 43 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 you're, I'm, they're。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “th” 音: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, faithfully /ˈfeɪθfəli/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: ashamed /əˈʃeɪmd/, reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/, shuttle /ˈʃʌtəl/, explosion /ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/, congressional /kəŋˈɡɹɛ.ʃə.nəl/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: testimony /ˈtɛstɪmoʊni/, reconstruction /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/, biological /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/, laboratory /ˈlæb(ə)ɹəˌtɔɹi/, congressional /kəŋˈɡɹɛ.ʃə.nəl/
中文母语者容易读错的音：
- /v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: behave /bɪˈheɪv/, narrative /ˈnæɹ.ə.tɪv/, convince /kənˈvɪns/, marvel /ˈmɑɹvəl/, overview /ˈoʊ.vɚˌvjuː/
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: induce /ɪnˈduːs/, edit /ˈɛdɪt/, explode /ɪkˈsploʊd/, ashamed /əˈʃeɪmd/, behave /bɪˈheɪv/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: challenger /ˈt͡ʃælənd͡ʒəɹ/, horrible /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/, moral /ˈmoɹəl/, laboratory /ˈlæb(ə)ɹəˌtɔɹi/, congressional /kəŋˈɡɹɛ.ʃə.nəl/
如何用这段视频练习
- 先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读，熟练之后再回到正常速度。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 challenger, edit, testimony 这类单词。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。