“The difference false memories the real ones are the same as for jewelry. fakes are always the most real, the most wonderful appearance…” Salvador Dali captured the changing truth of memory well. Our memory does not work like a camera whose film we could simply watch on demand; our remembered autobiography is a more or less faithful reconstruction of what we experienced. Memories are far from set in stone and must be recreated every time we recall an event.
” A memory stems from a number of complex mechanisms: neurological, but also psychological and dependent on affective factors.” recalls Mr. Thierry Baube, a psychiatrist at the Avicenna Hospital in Bobigny. This explains, for example, that those who are confronted with their shared memories may have the impression that they did not experience the same events. The researchers…
Source: Le Figaro
