Richard Addante, who has spent more than a decade researching episodic memory—the cognitive process that involves processing and retrieving long-term memory—has identified a new kind of human memory ...

Memory is not a recording device. It doesn't play back events like a video camera would. Instead, it's a remarkably active, creative process that reconstructs the past each time we reach for it.

This post was co-authored with Professor John Vervaeke 1. Thinking, Fast and Slow is one of the great books written on cognition and decision making. In a clear and accessible fashion, it made popular ...