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On the nature, reliability and abuses of memory.
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RE: On the nature, reliability and abuses of memory.
August 29, 2016 at 4:02 pm
(August 29, 2016 at 3:52 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: What was the OP about, again?

This lady and others have done some well respected research into the way false memories can be implanted.  When you combine that with people's naive assumption that memory is like a video recording, in there somewhere recorded with perfect fidelity, you can get bad results if those assumptions are reflected in the legal system.
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RE: On the nature, reliability and abuses of memory. - by Whateverist - August 29, 2016 at 4:02 pm

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