{"podcast":{"title":"Huberman Lab","slug":"huberman-lab-1365758","podcast_index_feed_id":1365758,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/hubermanlab","website_url":"https://www.hubermanlab.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/042e6144-725e-11ec-a75d-c38f702aecad/image/ee4f0b7b466ca35620792970d9bce2d2.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Scicomm Media","episode_count":425,"summary":"The Huberman Lab podcast is hosted by Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the department of neurobiology, and by courtesy, psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford School of Medicine. The podcast discusses neuroscience and science-based tools, including how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health, as well as existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works. Huberman has made numerous significant contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function, and neural plasticity, which is the ability of our nervous system to rewire and learn new behaviors, skills, and cognitive functioning. He is a McKnight Foundation and Pew Foundation Fellow and was awarded the Cogan Award, given to the scientist making the most significant discoveries in the study of vision, in 2017. Work from the Huberman Laboratory at Stanford School of Medicine has been published in top journals, including Nature, Science, and Cell, and has been featured in TIME, BBC, Scientific American, Discover, and other top media outlets. In 2021, Dr. Huberman launched the Hu…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T16:17:09.232907+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/huberman-lab-1365758"},"episode":{"title":"How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castel","slug":"how-to-improve-your-memory-cognitive-function-at-any-age-dr-alan-castel","published_at":"2026-07-13T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/huberman-lab-1365758/how-to-improve-your-memory-cognitive-function-at-any-age-dr-alan-castel","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/huberman-lab-1365758","url":"https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/how-to-improve-your-memory-and-cognitive-function-at-any-age-alan-castel","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/SCIM5781519002.mp3","summary":"Dr. Alan Castel, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and one of the world's foremost experts on human memory and cognitive aging. We discuss what science actually tells us about how to improve our learning ability and memory at any age. We also discuss how memory works, why all planning and imagination about the future is based on the past, false memories, and how to leverage curiosity, emotion, and self-testing retrieval practice to stamp in memories for the long term. We discuss what \"superagers\"—people who actually improve their cognitive capacity with age—do differently than everyone else. This episode is for anyone interested in the science of memory and tools to maintain and improve your memory across the lifespan. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman Wealthfront*: https://wealthfront.com/huberman Helix Sleep: https://helixsleep.com/huberman Function: https://functionhealth.com/huberman Lingo: https://hellolingo.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Dr. Alan Castel (00:02:41) What Is Memory?, Reconstruction & Metacognition (00:04:49) Mnemonics, Remembering Names & Deeper Learning (00:08:22) The Penny & Apple Logo, Noticing vs Seeing, Learning Through Mistakes (00:10:43) Sponsors: Wealthfront & Helix (00:14:05) Neuroplasticity, Frustration, Curiosity & Mindset (00:17:42) Maintaining vs Learning New Things, Habits, Novelty & Emotional Memory (00:24:28) \"Mental Photographs,\" Photo-Taking & Imagining the Future (00:29:28) Eyewitness Memory, the Ronald Cotton Case, Confidence vs Accuracy (00:35:07) Medium-Term & Prospective Memory, Hotel Fire Exits (00:40:28) Sponsor: AG1 (00:41:47) When Habits Turn Lethal, Aviation & Human Error (00:49:01) Why Memory Changes With Age; Alzheimer's & the Nun Study (…","meta_description":"Dr. Alan Castel, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and one of the world's foremost experts on human me…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":8919,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/huberman-lab-1365758/episodes/how-to-improve-your-memory-cognitive-function-at-any-age-dr-alan-castel/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/huberman-lab-1365758/how-to-improve-your-memory-cognitive-function-at-any-age-dr-alan-castel.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}