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Memory: sins and virtues

Author(s) -

Schacter Daniel L.

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

annals of the new york academy of sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712

H-Index - 248

eISSN - 1749-6632

pISSN - 0077-8923

DOI - 10.1111/nyas.12168

Subject(s) - constructive , illusion , variety (cybernetics) , reconstructive memory , memory errors , process (computing) , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , cognition , subject (documents) , psychology , adaptive memory , everyday life , human memory , episodic memory , computer science , childhood memory , neuroscience , epistemology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , recall , library science , operating system

Memory plays an important role in everyday life but does not provide an exact and unchanging record of experience: research has documented that memory is a constructive process that is subject to a variety of errors and distortions. Yet these memory “sins” also reflect the operation of adaptive aspects of memory. Memory can thus be characterized as an adaptive constructive process , which plays a functional role in cognition but produces distortions, errors, or illusions as a consequence of doing so.

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