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Pieces of Light

How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts by Charles Fernyhough

By Science News

- More than 2 years ago

A psychologist outlines a new understanding of how the brain forms memories, not by taking snapshots but by re-creating them each time.

Harper, 2013, 305 p., $26.99

A version of this article appears in the May 18, 2013 issue of Science News.

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