(August 4, 2014 at 4:25 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:Quote:My parents are perfectly capable of telling me about events that happened 40 years ago in great detail down to the color of the carpet and who said what when.
Your parents are also perfectly capable of being completely wrong about what they think they saw, heard, felt, or thought 40 years ago.
http://phys.org/news139159412.html
Quote:The work by psychologists at the University of St Andrews shows that the human memory can be remarkably fragile and even inventive when it comes to remembering past events, often completely rewriting 'autobiographical belief'.