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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: You Create False Memories of Daily Tasks, Dogs Can Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field, and There’s No Up or Down in Space
Description: Learn about why you have false memories of doing daily tasks; how we know that dogs might be able to sense Earth’s magnetic field via magnetoreception; and the science behind why there’s no up or down in space.
Science confirms we create false memories of doing daily tasks by Steffie Drucker
Paper: Mundane behavioral decisions, actions can be “misremembered” as done. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uoia-pmb071720.php
Albarracin, D., Sunderrajan, A., McCulloch, K. C., & Jones, C. (2020). Mistaking an Intention for a Behavior: The Case of Enacting Behavioral Decisions Versus Simply Intending to Enact Them. Personali...