Andrew Huberman· PhD
But number two is this much deeper issue that even amygdala memories are not necessarily accurate. So um you know our colleague Elizabeth Phelps um did this experiment right after 911 in 2001 shortly after the event happened. She went and interviewed lots of people in downtown and Midtown New York about what they saw on September 11th and she was smart enough to interview them also about what they remembered from September 10th. You know what they ate for breakfast the day and so on. Okay. She then found them three months later. She followed up a year later. She ended up doing that 10 years later as well. What they found is that the traumatic memories of 9/11, even though those are amigdula memories, they drifted just as much as the memories of, you know, what they ate for lunch on September 10th.