“Groundhog Day” – Memory and Time in Lockdown

Have the last few weeks in lockdown left you struggling to tell one day apart from the next? Working hard to remember what you’ve done each day? Maybe a strange sense of deja vu, almost like you’re living through Groundhog Day?

 

Breakfast’s Willy Russo spoke with Dr Adam Osth, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, at the School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, to talk about the “Groundhog Day” effect Lockdown has on our memories and perception of time.