alt Hacker NewsI listen to audiobooks while I walk and hike, and sometimes when I recall some particular thing I've learned, I can also recall where I was hiking when I heard it.
I think there's a lot to learn on how we really process information.
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tony_cannistra • yesterday at 10:56 PM
Same here. I always marvel at this. These recollections can even be years later, and the memory of the place in which I heard the remembered thing is vivid.
annzabelle • today at 12:21 AM
There's a podcast I listened to as it came out when I was a teenager. I'm now relistening to it over a decade later, and I distinctly remember walking home from the bus stop with it coming through wired earbuds from my ipod.
"when events are represented in memory, contextual information is stored along with memory targets; the context can therefore cue memories containing that contextual information" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-dependent_memory