Maps & Networks #2 key ideas and quotes

I've recently come across this study done by Steve Ramirez inspired by Hollywood films such as The Matrix, Total Recall and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in which he successfully installs a false memory in to a mouse's brain. Through a few articles I have read about this, he comments on the way films have approached memory in Hollywood films and that it hasn't always been portrayed with accuracy. For example, in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) it depicts these memories to be located in a specific areas of the brain which is false as it is really dispersed and distributed across the brain. I thought this was particularly interesting as this resembles the way data is dispersed and stored in the cloud.

Key

"Memories in the brain—the “temporary constellations,” as Harvard psychologist Dan Schacter calls them, that light up when a person lives an event and then echo back when the event is recalled"

Previous Photo series project quote:

Psycho Thriller: cinematic explorations of the mysteries of the mind ( Chapter 7: Memory and the Problem of Existence) by William Indick : "What is the most unreliable form of court evidence? Eyewitness testimony."      

FILMS LOOKED AT: 

Total Recall (1990)                                                                                                                                            Director: Paul Verhoeven

The Matrix (1999)                                                                                                                                          Directors: Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski      

LINKS:

TEDBLOG: 9 classic movies about memory manipulation, and how they inspired real neuroscience on.  https://blog.ted.com/8-classic-movies-about-memory-manipulation-and-how-they-inspired-real-neuroscience/

Mouse Memory Experiment: https://www.fastcompany.com/3015419/inception-style-memory-experiment-performed-on-mice-was-inspired-by-the-movie-total-recall