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{{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help){{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help)Memory, by its nature and necessity, is selective, its details subject to revision and dissipation. ... 'Recollection is always a reconstruction, to some extent — it's not a videotape that preserves every detail,' said Richard J. McNally, a professor of psychology at Harvard University and the author of Remembering Trauma. 'The details are often filled in later, or dismissed, and guessing may become part of the memory.'...Recalling an event draws on some of same areas of the brain that recorded it; in essence, to remember is to relive. Every time the mind summons the encoded experience, it can add details, subtract others and even alter the tone and point of the story. That reassembly, in turn, is freshly stored again, so that the next time it comes to mind it contains those edits. Using memory changes memory, as cognitive scientists say. For a victim, often the only stable elements are emotions and the tunnel-vision details: the dress she wore, the hand over her mouth
{{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help)Memory, by its nature and necessity, is selective, its details subject to revision and dissipation. ... 'Recollection is always a reconstruction, to some extent — it's not a videotape that preserves every detail,' said Richard J. McNally, a professor of psychology at Harvard University and the author of Remembering Trauma. 'The details are often filled in later, or dismissed, and guessing may become part of the memory.'...Recalling an event draws on some of same areas of the brain that recorded it; in essence, to remember is to relive. Every time the mind summons the encoded experience, it can add details, subtract others and even alter the tone and point of the story. That reassembly, in turn, is freshly stored again, so that the next time it comes to mind it contains those edits. Using memory changes memory, as cognitive scientists say. For a victim, often the only stable elements are emotions and the tunnel-vision details: the dress she wore, the hand over her mouth