Lars Sivertsen

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2,657 appearances 22 recordings 5 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 21 Sep

Lars Sivertsen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Triple M Rocks Footy AFL · FRIDAY HUDDLE | Isaac's Fashion Critiques, Damo's Holiday, Browny vs Potato Chips · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

Like it's 100% the truth.

I'm not sure what I'll decide.

Global News Podcast · Lebanon won't accept any deal unless Israeli troops withdraw · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

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And... Things that sort of surprise us, we tend to have a more vivid or, I guess, high-resolution memory of than those things that we expect.

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participants that had a very simple task.

They just had to indicate using a key press, which side of the screen the dot appeared.

And to them, it may have seen as though the dot appeared just at random locations, but we manipulated the presentation of the dot so that there were these subtle probabilistic tendencies of the dot to be presented at a particular location over time.

So there seems to be a speed benefit for events in the world that happen that we expect, so we respond to those faster than the ones that we don't expect, but we remember them less well.

So things that sort of surprise us, we tend to have a more vivid or, I guess, high-resolution memory of than those things that we expect.

The way that it is able to form these accurate predictions is by paying attention to the predictions that go wrong and then updating that model that creates the predictions so in the future it will be more accurate in its predictions.

And so, yeah, you can think of this as sort of providing a software update to that model within the brain, which is constantly generating predictions about what's going to be coming up next.

And you see this throughout the brain.

There are all these design principles

that seem to support this spending as little energy as possible in order to get the most bang for butt.

There are other factors there.

So if something is quite traumatic or it elicits a strong emotional response,

I think that that can have an independent effect on memory.

But certainly things that surprise you, this would seem to provide evidence for why they remember better.

And perhaps it supports that sort of old thought or that old sort of saying that you learn a lot more from your mistakes.

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