every time we retrieve a stored memory for what happened, it’s highly likely that we change the memory. As described earlier, when we retrieve a memory of something that happened, we are reconstructing the story, not playing the videotape. Memory isn’t a courtroom stenographer, reading back exactly what was said. When we recall what happened, we typically fetch only some of the details we stored. We omit bits, reinterpret parts, and distort others in light of new information, context, and perspective that are available now but weren’t back then. We frequently invent new information, often
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