Quote of the Day (Erin Kendall Braun, on How Memory Operates)

“Most people think that their memory operates like a video recorder, replaying events as they originally happened. But memories aren’t static and objective like a recording. Instead, they’re associative: our brains link together the relevant details of experiences to store and later recall.”— American cognitive neuroscientist and memory expert Erin Kendall Braun, quoted by Julia Joy, “Ask an Alum: Why You Can’t Always Trust Your Memory,” Columbia, Winter 2025-26