How Does Memory Work? From Sensory Input to Long-Term Storage

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The most useful thing to understand about how memory works is this: remembering isn’t replaying a recording. It’s rebuilding, from pieces, every single time. That’s why two people at the same event remember it differently, and why confident eyewitnesses are sometimes confidently wrong. The system was never designed for fidelity — it was designed to … Read more