Why Two Witnesses Remember Different Facts
One event, many truths. That is not a poetic slogan; it is a basic feature of perception and memory. A scene does not enter the brain as neutral data. Selective attention filters it, much like a camera with a narrow aperture, so each observer samples different fragments while ignoring the rest.The real shock is that the brain is less a recorder than a prediction engine. Using predictive coding, ne...More
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