Brains Remember Stories Differently Based on How They Were Told
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Research suggests that the way a story is told affects how it is stored in memory, with implications for understanding human memory and cognition; the discussion is limited but suggests interest in the topic.
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sema4hacker
3 months ago
I have yet to re-watch a TV show or movie I saw long ago and not discover that some scene or dialog I thought I could recall exactly was in fact different from what I remembered. The older a given memory, the more inexact it is.
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