This article discusses a study by Northwestern Medicine® on the fallibility of memory published in Feb 2014.
"To help us survive, Bridge said, our memories adapt to an ever-changing environment and help us deal with what’s important now."
“Our memory is not like a video camera, ... Your memory reframes and edits events to create a story to fit your current world. It’s built to be current.”
The actual study titled "Hippocampal Binding of Novel Information with Dominant
Memory Traces Can Support Both Memory Stability and Change"
DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3819-13.2014
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