
Episode 33:
The False Memory
The False Memory
BY GIANNA RICHARD
Join us as host Gianna Richard discusses the film Memento and the role short-term memory loss plays in the film.
This episode was produced as part of an upper level course on NeuroScience Fiction in Film taught by Angel Kaur during Fall 2020 at UNC Asheville.
Articles Referenced
- Sevenants, Aline, and d’Ydewalle, Géry. “Semantic, Aesthetic, and Cognitive Effects of Flashbacks in Film.” UC Merced Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society, 33(33). 2011.
- Smith, Christine N., et al. “Neuropsychologia: The nature of anterograde and retrograde memory impairment after damage to the medial temporal lobe.” Elsevier, vol. 51, no. 13, 2013, pp. 2709-2714.
Credits
Written, Directed, and Featuring: Gianna Richard
Scientific Research by: Gianna Richard
Additional Sound Engineering: Cat Sawyer
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