How your memory rewrites your past

6 February 2014

– Your memory isn’t like a video camera. Instead, it plucks fragments of the present and inserts them into the past to create a story to fit your current world.

The study appears in the February 5 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.

The study looks at how memory is faulty, and how it can insert things from the present into memories of the past when those memories are retrieved.

To help us survive, Bridge said, our memories adapt to an ever-changing environment and help us deal with what’s important now.