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memory
Your memory changes every time you recall it.
Memory reconsolidation is a process where retrieved memories can become labile and subject to modification under specific boundary conditions, such as prediction error.
It is not a universal process triggered by every instance of memory recall.
You are constantly editing your own past.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Nader, 2003
- What the check found
- Reconsolidation is a real phenomenon described by Nader (2003), but the claim inaccurately suggests it happens every time a memory is accessed, ignoring its conditional nature.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.