The unreliability of episodic memory may seem at odds with its ability to fine-tune our perceptual capacities. Less error-prone, episodic memories related to dreams, hyper-focus, and expertise may ...

Alexandra Urbina is a Mexican-American painter and Art Historian. She views painting as a tool for meditation on the ephemerality of life, creating works that explore the unreliability of memory.

Recent research suggests that repeated "replays" of episodic memories—i.e., memories of personal episodes from our past—can help improve our ability to visually distinguish between scenes, faces, and ...