"If misinformation can be incorporated so seamlessly into a person's recollection of an event, what becomes of the original memory? Is it completely overwritten, or merely adjusted somehow, layered with a new trace?"
— Specter, Michael (b. 1955)
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Date
May 19, 2014
Metaphor
"If misinformation can be incorporated so seamlessly into a person's recollection of an event, what becomes of the original memory? Is it completely overwritten, or merely adjusted somehow, layered with a new trace?"
Metaphor in Context
Loftus's results raised a fundamental question about the biology of the brain: if misinformation can be incorporated so seamlessly into a person's recollection of an event, what becomes of the original memory? Is it completely overwritten, or merely adjusted somehow, layered with a new trace?
(p. 44)
(p. 44)
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Reading
Citation
Michael Specter, "Partial Recall," The New Yorker (May 19, 2014): 38-48.
Date of Entry
05/20/2014
