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Published: Fri, 11 Sep 2009
Description: Memory expert explains why certain events get etched it your brain
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" Which tragic event in history sticks in your mind the most that was September 11 that somebody -- Priscilla I guess most recently an island. If you ask most people where they -- September 11 2001. They can tell you with -- details where they work even it wasn't Washington or New York City."
" I was in bed watching -- ratio -- call -- and it is something going on in the office trying to watch the football."
" I was an hour now morning. And I didn't it was like an office. One of the prices on his lunch break in the nineteenth -- TV came in. 800 ninth and tell the solemnly -- and if they stopped everything we're sitting run into the I was on the TV and some."
" High school of time I was sitting in the hallway and my teacher came up to man. Is like a plane -- crash new building in new York and everything like."
" Doctor Cynthia green author of the total memory workout told us why these events are so etched in our brain. Each generation seems to have some event that is seared into our memory collectively. And often what happens when we experienced something as traumatic as 9/11. Or when John Kennedy was shot. Is that the strengthen that emotional response that we have. Creates a very strong bond to the memory so that that memory feels on the -- and our recollection. Green says the strength of the memory is -- It's too strong people might have a harder time remembering personal tragedies. But with the sense that shake the world like 9/11 remembering might just do some good. I think that also reliving these events on anniversaries. This is a way of coping with that. And then dealing still with them warning in the loss even if it's just the rituals seeing that anniversary commemorated through the media. That can be very helpful thing for people who are still. You know troubled by the memories of especially trauma that's quite recent I'm ED hill Fox News."
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