The most important, the longest lasting, the strongest emotional, and the most practiced memories are the ones that are embedded the deepest in the brain, and because we have retrieved them so many times previously, they are the most able to be retrieved. We all hear about people who can remember their youth, their phone number, or street address from 70 years ago, but they cannot recall what they had for breakfast. The memory of this morning's breakfast wasn't rehearsed, and wasn't very important, so it fades away quickly.
Daniel LevitinI don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.
Daniel LevitinIn order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.
Daniel LevitinWe can be skeptical, suitably skeptical, and we can trust news outlets, some more than others.
Daniel Levitin