Why two people see the same thing but have different memories
- Written by Julian Matthews, Postdoctoral Research Officer – Cognitive Neurology Laboratory, Monash University
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Does it ever strike you as odd that you and a friend can experience the same event at the same time, but come away with different memories of what happened? So why is it that people can recall the same thing so differently?
We all know memory isn’t perfect, and most memory differences are relatively trivial. But...
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