Dr. Ryan Rhodes is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He won 1st place 🥇 in the 2024 CogSci Mind Challenge hosted at the Cognitive Science
Society: https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-challenge/. In this video, Dr. Ryan Rhodes narrates several processes related to memory in an entertaining and informative way. He leverages exciting audiovisuals to underscore his approachable teaching style and make his video, well, memorable! Each year, the CogSci Mind Challenge invites Cognitive Scientists to create a five-minute video addressing a key question within Cognitive Science for an audience of non-experts, particularly high school and early college students. The question for this competition was, “Why do our memories sometimes fade or fail?”
A special thanks to Prof. Shannon Bryant for agreeing to be the opening act for the presentation~!
Click here to learn more about his submission.