Can you trust your memory? This neuroscientist isn’t so sure | André Fenton – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary
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1.- It's a really intriguing question to ponder, you know, how does time and space affect memory
2.And in fact, the converse, how memory affects our perceptions of time and space
3.The representations that we build of time and space in the brain form a framework in which we experience the world so that we can collect from the experiences, the memories that we keep
4.And at the very same time, those memories that we keep, they're modifying, they're changing the very substance of that framework so that in the future, our next experiences are on that modified framework
5.And so there's a deep interaction, a fundamental interaction between what our past experience is and how we approach the world to collect new experiences that we turn into memories
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Key Vocabulary (CEFR B2)
accomplish
A2To finish successfully.
Example:
"And so how do you accomplish that?"
predicated
A2To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
Example:
"so that in the future, our next experiences are predicated"
privileged
A2To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize
Example:
"One of the things that I feel really privileged"
differently
B1(manner) In a different way.
Example:
"those people will interact very differently"
communicate
B1To impart
Example:
"One neuron is better or worse able to communicate"
strengthen
A2To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
Example:
"And those synapses tend to strengthen"
weakening
A2To make weaker or less strong.
Example:
"And the strengthening and the weakening"
cognitive
B2Cognate.
Example:
"Cognitive psychologists knew very long ago"
according
A2To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
Example:
"And we tend to build those experiences according"
recording
A2To make a record of information.
Example:
"And so naturally, we even have a different recording"
| Word | CEFR | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| accomplish | A2 | To finish successfully. |
| predicated | A2 | To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly. |
| privileged | A2 | To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize |
| differently | B1 | (manner) In a different way. |
| communicate | B1 | To impart |
| strengthen | A2 | To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify. |
| weakening | A2 | To make weaker or less strong. |
| cognitive | B2 | Cognate. |
| according | A2 | To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust. |
| recording | A2 | To make a record of information. |
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