In "Memory Lane: The Perfect Imperfect Ways We Remember," authors Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy explore the complexities of memory and how it influences behavior. They present a detailed taxonomy of memory types and explain the process of synaptic plasticity, which allows us to form and modify memories. The authors highlight the malleability of memory, exemplifying it through historical cases where suggestive questioning led to false memorizations, demonstrating skepticism about concepts like repressed memories. This book serves as both an informative guide and a cautionary tale about the nature of human memory.
Memory works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.
Each time we recall a memory, it may be slightly different, depending on our emotions then and now and on accurate or erroneous details introduced by other people.
Greene and Murphy show how investigators, who would not take no for an answer, used leading questions to plant memories in hundreds of children.
The authors acknowledge that memories are malleable and can have harmful consequences.
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