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An essential distinction is between memory for facts (semantic memory) and memory for events (episodic memory).
Strictly speaking, you should not be able to have this kind of first-person, there-in-the-moment memory for events you didn't actually live through.
So, if memory for events is strengthened at emotional times, why does everyone forget what they were doing when the Challenger exploded?
Procedural memory (memory for well learned tasks such as how to use a fork) is lost much later than memory for events.
I started to feel that I had been beguiled, in a sense, by Clive's easy, nonchalant, fluent conversation into thinking that he still had a great deal of general information at his disposal, despite the loss of memory for events.
(So I really have been in love with Heathcliff!) He found that when people were asked to read books, they created a "muscle memory" for events they had experienced vicariously, and their brains actually changed.
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We anticipated that in the event middle condition, cues at midpoints of the video might improve memory for midpoint information in older adults, but that it would impair memory for event boundary information.
If the experimental conditions are set up correctly, it turns out to be rather simple to give people memories for events that never actually happened.
The signs of mild cognitive impairment are an inability to form memories for events that just happened and a slight shrinking of the hippocampus, the area of the brain where these memories are laid down.
Professor Elizabeth Loftus endured a torrent of abuse from critics who objected to her work on the unreliable nature of eyewitness testimonies, and her defining research on how people can develop rich memories for events that never happened.
Neuroscientists have identified the hippocampus as crucial for creating new memories for events.
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