"Memory is fundamental in determining who we are, what we become and what we perceive our past to have been. It is sometimes overlooked that activities as varied as psychotherapy, job training, and forming friendships are dependent on reasonably intact memory systems for such interactions to succeed. Those who pause to reflect on it usually marvel that the phenomenon of recall is a "by-product" of electrical connections and chemical interactions within our brains. Many have awe for those few who can remember with complete ...
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"Memory is fundamental in determining who we are, what we become and what we perceive our past to have been. It is sometimes overlooked that activities as varied as psychotherapy, job training, and forming friendships are dependent on reasonably intact memory systems for such interactions to succeed. Those who pause to reflect on it usually marvel that the phenomenon of recall is a "by-product" of electrical connections and chemical interactions within our brains. Many have awe for those few who can remember with complete clarity the activities of a day randomly chosen from many years ago or correctly reproduce days or weeks later material only briefly perused. Less dramatically, we ourselves can recount events such as annual holiday get-togethers over the last few years, with only slight distortions of the differing locations and happenings of those times. We can also be stunned when we evaluate someone and discover after a mid-session break that they do not remember meeting us or the tasks just completed"--
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