Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Misinformation

I didn't read the whole article yet, but the section on Misinformation Studies was particularly interesting to me.

http://cogprints.org/599/0/199802009.html

Childhood memories falsified. Being from a large family, and having lots of childhood stories told to me over and over again, I know that some things that I remember are not wholly my own memories. Some things I remember almost photographically never really happened at all. Memories of relatives that died when I was very young, do I truly remember them, or does my brain just cobble something together out of the stories that I heard?

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