“Mysteries of Human Memory” to air on Kentucky public television

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In January, Kentucky’s PBS affiliate, KET, will air a 90-minute Grawemeyer Award in Psychology event, “Mysteries of Human Memory.” The panel discussion, held at the Kentucky Center for the Arts as part of the fall 2015 Grawemeyer Awards 30th Anniversary Celebration, features former Grawemeyer Award in Psychology winners and prominent memory experts Elizabeth Loftus, James McGaugh and Lynn Nadel. The discussion is followed by a question-and-answer session moderated by Keith Lyle, a University of Louisville associate professor of psychological and brain sciences.

Some of the topics covered include: eyewitness testimony and the fallibility of memory, emotion and memory, highly superior autobiographical memory, place memory, and the process of memory consolidation and reconsolidation.

The program airs as follows on KET KY, The Kentucky Channel (a cable and satellite channel guide is available here):

  • Wednesday January 4, 2017, 10:00am
  • Thursday  January 5, 2107, 3:00pm
  • Monday, January 9, 2017, 3:00pm
  • Tuesday January 10, 2017, 2:00am

Additional details about the airings of “Mysteries of Human Memory: The Grawemeyer Award in Psychology” is available via the KET program guide.