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Remembering is an imaginative construction: we do not replay the past, we reassemble a plausible version of it out of fragments.

Drawn from what Charan Ranganath said

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  1. Charan Ranganath

    Professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California

    So what he concluded was that he called remembering an imaginative construction, meaning that we don’t replay the past, we imagine how the past could have been by taking bits and pieces that come up in our heads.

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