Date: May 19, 2014
"Plato and Aristotle saw memories as thoughts inscribed on wax tablets that could be erased easily and used again."
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Date: May 19, 2014
"These days we tend to think of memory as a camera or a video recorder, filming, storing, and recycling the vast troves of data we accumulate throughout our lives."
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Date: May 19, 2014
"Memory 'works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page,' Loftus said in a recent speech. 'You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.'"
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Date: May 19, 2014
"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?"
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Date: May 19, 2014
"Like a text recalled from a computer's hard drive, each memory was subject to editing."
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Date: May 19, 2014
"I asked if she thought scientists would ever really be able to write the pain out of a patient's mind."
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