O Inconstant Memory

[Guest guest]

I found this article from ABC News after watching the series on

The Learning Channel this week called " The Human Face " ; there was

a woman in one segment who had mistakenly insisted that a man she

had chosen in a lineup was the man who raped her, even after

being shown the man later who admitted to the crime... after

eleven years in jail, the man she accused was exonorated when DNA

proved it was the other man.

 

She spoke of the confusion and embarassment, and the horror of

misattributing her memory, initially based on their resemblance,

but then on her obsessive familiarity with the man she had

accused.

 

If you get the chance to watch the four hour series, it is very

good and talks quite a bit about the different centers of the

brain that affect facial expression, facial recognition, and

memory.

 

This article is about how a memory can be transferred from one

place to another in the mind, fooling us into believing that a

person was someplace they never were. This is what happens

sometimes with false memory syndrome, when a person is led to

reassemble bits and pieces of floating childhood memories.

 

http://www.ABCNews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/memory_misattribution_010807.ht\

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Hojotoho!,

Crow

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