Dr. Alan Castel

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Huberman Lab · How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castel · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

Does that make sense?

Yeah, it's a fascinating question because I think selection is the important thing here that you're making a conscious decision like this is a special moment.

Can I just take a picture of it?

And the work on visual memory is interesting.

We are very visual people, but the research on photographic memory does show that even people who have very strong visual memory will make memory errors.

So it's not that it's exactly photographic, but their visual memory is exceptional.

I think what's interesting here, and this is something I think is important, is the selection process that you're choosing.

This is a special moment.

I'm going to timestamp it and remember it.

You're not doing anything special other than realizing a lot is going on.

Now, there's probably some emotional valence there.

versus taking this random picture in New York City.

And it would be interesting to kind of test your memory later because we know sometimes we think we remember something well, and in fact, we misremember things or details.

And hopefully, you know, you got the right girlfriend, of course, but maybe the hill looks a little bit different.

Or sometimes people are like, of course it was spring because we went to the prom.

But it's like, no, actually, now that, you know, it was a different season entirely.

That was fall.

I'm confusing it with the other picnic I took.

Mm-hmm.

But I think that's important, especially as we get older, that there are some memories.

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