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Glen Thomson's avatar

What a useful insight: My brain digs up just enough relevant info to do what it needs to do right now.

It makes me think about a piano virtuoso who needs to recall an entire piano concerto and dish it up in complete synch with the orchestra. Think of the dexterity, the touch, the weight, the pedal, the emotion, the tempo, the timbre, the hearing, the drama.... That's not just little bits of relevant info, that's, that's, that's, incredible!

Mind. Blown.

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John's avatar

Having had training in interrogative interviewing and been around for the moral panics surrounding satanic cults, children and other unsavoury traumatic experiences, I like your article and commend Dr Loftus’s work and her weighty corpus on FMS. It seems true to me as well after years of interviewing and preparing legal submissions. That, if you like, is my ethos in this matter. Her “Victims of Memory” was published in the mid ‘90s at a time when a new version of the “memory wars” had arisen - still worth reading imo. Anyway, suffice to say that eyewitness testimony convinces jurors but is unbelievably malleable and misleading in the best intentioned of people - we write our own stories and constantly revise them. I’m surprised you didn’t mention any films on this topic! Thanks again, Suzi.

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