Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that.
Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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