Charan Ranganath

Charan Ranganath is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of California, Davis. “Why We Remember” explores how memory guides people despite forgetting and distortion.

Books by Charan Ranganath

Why We Remember

Charan Ranganath

Why We Remember asks how memory guides us despite forgetting and distortion. Charan Ranganath explains how attention, context, schemas, emotion, curiosity, and social storytelling shape what we remember, then shows how retrieval, spacing, and sleep can support learning and help us use memory more deliberately.

12 chapters