We assume our memories are accurate.
A 2011 survey found 63 percent of the public saying, “Human memory works like a video camera, accurately recording the events we see and hear … .” The problem: Not one academic expert on memory agrees with this proposition, accepted by nearly two-thirds of Americans, because the scientific evidence clearly undermines any such claim.
Such beliefs animate the anger and disappointment directed at Brian Williams and others whose memories do not necessarily comport with reality. CONT.
Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill