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We’ve organized this blog around questions you might have about memory. 

We try to post about once a month, so check back to learn more about memory!

If you don’t see your question answered here, you can ask an adult to help you submit your question to us, using the form below. Your question might be answered in a future blog post!

 

About the Authors

Elizabeth Kensinger holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a Professor of Psychology (pronounced sai·kaa·luh·jee) and Neuroscience at Boston College, where she researches how memory works and how the emotions we experience affect our memories.  She knew from an early age that she loved science and teaching. She spent many afternoons imagining her dolls as astronauts-in-training, teaching them all the math and astronomy she knew. It was in college that she realized there was a scientific way to study memory and how the brain makes memories — and she’s been researching those topics ever since.

Juliet Grenzke is her daughter, age 12, who at the age of 9 described herself as someone who “asks infinite questions about the brain.” This has held true over the years. Juliet also loves to read, and she had the great idea to write this blog with her mom. We began this blog when Juliet was a 3rd grader, and we have enjoyed continuing it over the years.

How we work together on our blog posts.

One of our very first questions from a reader was about how we collaborate (work together) on this blog. Here is what we do:

We begin with a question. It might be something Juliet wonders about, or a question from one of our readers.

When we first started this blog, Elizabeth would write the first draft of an answer and Juliet would read it, point out parts that were confusing or boring, and then Elizabeth would use Juliet’s feedback to write a second draft (and sometimes a third and fourth draft, until we were both satisfied). Now that Juliet has had a few years to learn about memory, she often writes the first draft, and Elizabeth provides her feedback. Once we are both satisfied with the answer, Juliet gives it a final proofread, and then we post it online.

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