Best-Selling Author Jonah Lehrer to Speak on Memory
Jonah Lehrer, best-selling author of “Proust Was a Neuroscientist” and “How We Decide,” will give a talk, “Your Memory Is a Liar,” as part of the in the Center for Ethics series Memory and Forgetting on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in Empie Theatre, Center for the Arts.Friday, September 23, 2011 09:58 AM
This event is co-sponsored by the department of psychology, the neuroscience program and student activities, and is free and open to the public.
Lehrer is a popular science writer for The New Yorker, Nature, Seed, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and he writes the “Head Case” column for The Wall Street Journal. He is a contributing editor at Wired Magazine and National Public Radio's Radio Lab. In his talk, he will discuss the science of memory to unpack and explode some of the myths surrounding how and why we remember (and forget).
Lehrer has been called "something of a popular science prodigy," by The New York Times and a man of "considerable talents." A graduate of Columbia University with a degree in neuroscience, Lehrer studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar where he received his master’s degree in 20th century literature and philosophy.
Memory and Forgetting is co-directed by Holly Cate, assistant professor of theatre, and Dr. Paul McEwan, associate professor of media and communication.
For more information on the series, please visit http://www.muhlenberg.edu/main/aboutus/cfe/.
