![]() Would you erase painful memories if you could? Jim Carrey stars in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which investigates this topic. ![]() Would you erase the memory of a loved one after a breakup if it eased the pain? We’ve been able to erase memories from mice brains, but memory erasure in humans is still far off on the horizon. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindĮternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mindis perhaps the most famous memory erasure movie ever. Inception. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. While we can’t enter people’s memories directly like in the movie, a rich body of literature does exist on the malleability of human memories and how easily false memories can be created. Inception is a mind-bending film on implanting and extracting memories in the brain, done with high-octane drama and a twisting, dream-like storyline. Matt Damon stars in The Bourne Identity. Photo courtesy of Universal Studios 4. Like Memento, it also does a good job highlighting how profound memory’s influence is on our identities and who we are at the core. The Bourne Trilogy (which starts with The Bourne Identity) is a fast-spaced action series about Jason Bourne, an agent with amnesia who knows how to win any fight, but doesn’t remember who he is or where he came from. Inside Out was a smash hit animated film in 2015. Pixar nailed it: they actually consulted a team of neuroscientists for the movie to make sure they correctly depicted certain memories and emotions. It beautifully connects memories, our childhood, and how they are altered over time. Inside Outis a Pixar classic that zooms into a child’s brain and lets us see her memories form, change, and evaporate over time as she matures. Guy Pearce’s character uses tattoos to track what is real and what is false from his own memory in Memento. Photo courtesy of IFC Films 2. It has viewers piece the story together themselves. Memento is one of the most realistic accounts of amnesia - the inability to form or recall our personally experienced events - that I’ve seen come out of Hollywood, because of its broken storyline. Here’s his take on what Hollywood gets almost right and wrong: 1. Inspired by a recent wave of movies on the subject, Ramirez ranked eight of his favorite “mind-bending” films in order of how realistic they are from a scientific perspective. It’s a hot topic, both in academic labs and in the film industry. ![]() ![]() Whether or not you’ve seen Blade Runner 2049, released last fall, over the past few years you’ve likely consumed some fictionalized depiction of how memory works. The College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences is an expert on the human brain as well as an avid movie watcher. The accuracy of Hollywood’s depictions of memory erasure or manipulation varies wildly from film to film, but some movies actually do a pretty great job, says neuroscientist Steve Ramirez. 8 Brainy Movies That (Almost) Get Neuroscientist Stamp of Approval CAS memory expert’s favorite mind-bending films, based on scientific accuracyĪ “totem,” from memory manipulation film Inception. ![]()
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