Memory feels like a mental video archive, but psychologists have shown it behaves more like a creative editor, constantly ...

The traditional view of memory, and the one that persists among most of us, is that it is something like a storehouse of movies on a computer’s hard drive. This is a false concept of memory, analogous ...

Citations: Bodenhausen, Galen. 2002. Creating Memory Illusions: Gist-based recognition and the generation of false memories. Memory. (1)63-80.

Consider the volume of personal details in our lives that we remember accurately, and over long periods of time: The names of friends, colleagues, and people in our family; our own name, our birthday, ...