Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Charan Ranganath

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3063 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Huberman Lab
How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols | Dr. Charan Ranganath

And so for me, it's like a constant memory thing because my brain doesn't want to play covers. It wants to play the songs that I've written. And so there's always this memory thing. And then I get nervous. I get really nervous. And so I move a lot. And then I'll see friends. And that kills me because then I start thinking, what are they thinking?

Huberman Lab
How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols | Dr. Charan Ranganath

And so I started โ€“ last show I did with Pavlov's Dogs, I wore sunglasses in it. was great. Because then I wasn't attuned to them. And it just goes back to what we're talking about kind of with the camera and stuff. I was feeling it. And I was thinking. I was in the flow, in the zone, and feeling it and doing it and not thinking about it.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols | Dr. Charan Ranganath

And so I started โ€“ last show I did with Pavlov's Dogs, I wore sunglasses in it. was great. Because then I wasn't attuned to them. And it just goes back to what we're talking about kind of with the camera and stuff. I was feeling it. And I was thinking. I was in the flow, in the zone, and feeling it and doing it and not thinking about it.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols | Dr. Charan Ranganath

And so I started โ€“ last show I did with Pavlov's Dogs, I wore sunglasses in it. was great. Because then I wasn't attuned to them. And it just goes back to what we're talking about kind of with the camera and stuff. I was feeling it. And I was thinking. I was in the flow, in the zone, and feeling it and doing it and not thinking about it.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols | Dr. Charan Ranganath

And there's a whole interesting literature, Choking Under Pressure, that actually relates to this idea of sometimes having too much cognitive control going on is really bad. When you're under stress and if you know something fairly well, you're going to be better off if you just go into an automatic state.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols | Dr. Charan Ranganath

And there's a whole interesting literature, Choking Under Pressure, that actually relates to this idea of sometimes having too much cognitive control going on is really bad. When you're under stress and if you know something fairly well, you're going to be better off if you just go into an automatic state.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols | Dr. Charan Ranganath

And there's a whole interesting literature, Choking Under Pressure, that actually relates to this idea of sometimes having too much cognitive control going on is really bad. When you're under stress and if you know something fairly well, you're going to be better off if you just go into an automatic state.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols | Dr. Charan Ranganath

Oh, I would love to. Thank you, Andrew. It's just been great to be here.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols | Dr. Charan Ranganath

Oh, I would love to. Thank you, Andrew. It's just been great to be here.

Huberman Lab
How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols | Dr. Charan Ranganath

Oh, I would love to. Thank you, Andrew. It's just been great to be here.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Danny really impacted me because I was an undergrad at Berkeley, and I got to take a class from him long before he won the Nobel Prize or anything, and it was just a mind-blowing class. But this idea of the remembering self and the experiencing self, I got into it because it's so much about memory, even though he doesn't study memory. So we're right now having this experience, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Danny really impacted me because I was an undergrad at Berkeley, and I got to take a class from him long before he won the Nobel Prize or anything, and it was just a mind-blowing class. But this idea of the remembering self and the experiencing self, I got into it because it's so much about memory, even though he doesn't study memory. So we're right now having this experience, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

Danny really impacted me because I was an undergrad at Berkeley, and I got to take a class from him long before he won the Nobel Prize or anything, and it was just a mind-blowing class. But this idea of the remembering self and the experiencing self, I got into it because it's so much about memory, even though he doesn't study memory. So we're right now having this experience, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And people can watch it presumably on YouTube or listen to it on audio. But if you're talking to somebody else, you could probably describe this whole thing in 10 minutes. But that's going to miss a lot of what actually happened. And so the idea there is that the way we remember things is not the replay of the experience. It's something totally different.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And people can watch it presumably on YouTube or listen to it on audio. But if you're talking to somebody else, you could probably describe this whole thing in 10 minutes. But that's going to miss a lot of what actually happened. And so the idea there is that the way we remember things is not the replay of the experience. It's something totally different.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And people can watch it presumably on YouTube or listen to it on audio. But if you're talking to somebody else, you could probably describe this whole thing in 10 minutes. But that's going to miss a lot of what actually happened. And so the idea there is that the way we remember things is not the replay of the experience. It's something totally different.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And it tends to be biased by the beginning and the end. And he talks about the peaks, but there's also the best parts, the worst parts, et cetera. And those are the things that we remember. And so when we make decisions, we usually consult memory and we feel like our memory is a record of what we've experienced, but it's not.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And it tends to be biased by the beginning and the end. And he talks about the peaks, but there's also the best parts, the worst parts, et cetera. And those are the things that we remember. And so when we make decisions, we usually consult memory and we feel like our memory is a record of what we've experienced, but it's not.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

And it tends to be biased by the beginning and the end. And he talks about the peaks, but there's also the best parts, the worst parts, et cetera. And those are the things that we remember. And so when we make decisions, we usually consult memory and we feel like our memory is a record of what we've experienced, but it's not.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#430 โ€“ Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

It's this kind of very biased sample, but it's biased in an interesting and I think biologically relevant way.