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When Remembering Might Mean Forgetting
Debate flares over whether retrieved memories risk oblivion if they don't undergo reconsolidation
The Scientist 2004, 18(15):17
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Recall a memory under certain circumstances, and the brain might erase it, recent rodent research suggests. If that possibility seems like science fiction, consider other weird tricks played by the mind's memory machinery. False recollections, for example, can occur during a déjà vu experience or after hypnosis. And true recollections which can reconstruct experiences from decades earlier, often seem almost supernatural, even to those fully aware of the brain's complexity.
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