How the **** does memory work? | Matthew Kelley | TEDxLakeForestCollege

What happens when we encounter missing information? Whether a poor phone connection obscures a snippet of conversation or a radio station censors a song lyric, our brains automatically attempt to generate the missing material. How does this generation process influence our memories? Matthew Kelley is a professor of psychology at Lake Forest College. Along with dozens of undergraduate scholars, he has searched for general principles of remembering that operate over short- and long-term intervals, across multiple memory systems, in both laboratory and real-world contexts. He is particularly interested in examining counterintuitive effects of cognition and memory. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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