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

Absolutely.

I think that's what you're looking for is deeper learning, deeper semantic learning.

And this has been referred to as levels of processing.

So I was working at a very low level of processing when I'm, you know, making up happy Henry, you know, for hydrogen and helium and

But if you can start to visualize things or interact with them, and that's why we wanna have chemistry labs or places where, I found chemistry very abstract.

I think that's why I didn't really engage with it.

But I found psychology to be something that we were interacting with every day.

I was making these memory errors.

I saw my parents and grandparents remembering and forgetting things.

And I thought, how does that happen?

And the brain is so complex that I don't think we'll ever completely understand why this memory error might happen.

but I think this awareness is really important.

A lot of good learning happens through making mistakes.

I play piano and I struggle, but I know when I make a mistake, I'm going to have to work on this.

I see that with my children, you learn a lot by making these mistakes.

I think that illustrates also how our memory works, that just seeing something many times doesn't mean you'll remember it well.

This is a classic demonstration that you've seen a penny many times, you don't remember all the features on the penny.

I've updated that to the Apple logo.

You've seen the Apple logo so many times.

Of course, you know all the features.

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