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Pieces of light how the new science of memory illuminates the stories we tell about our pasts

How is it possible to have vivid memories of something that never happened?How can siblings remember the same event from their childhoods so differently?Do the selections and distortions of memory reveal a truth about the self?Why are certain memories tied to specific places?Does your memory really get worse as you get older?A new consensus is emerging among cognitive scientists: rather than possessing fixed, unchanging memories, we create recollections anew each time we are called upon to remember. As the psychologist Charles Fernyhough explains, remembering is an act of narrative imagination as much as it is the product of a neurological process. In -- brings together science and literature, the ordinary and the extraordinary, to help us better understand the ways we remember?and the ways we forget.

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