false memories

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These two items might be of some interest

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/s ... ioncode=26

and

http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/A ... PDF03%20(2).pdf

What do you think of these two things ?

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

I know my clearest memories of childhood are false. If it's fuzzy it's more likely to be true.

Heh. Old enough news to be in the textbooks, actually. The way people record memories isn't like the way a video camera would do it; people not only record selectively (most information gets thrown out at the sensory memory stage) but the recordings aren't permanent, changing as your perspective changes. Most such changes are not drastic and don't harm anyone, but there have been cases of false memories of things like assault or childhood abuse--doubly tragic both because of the effect it has on the person with the false memories and because it casts doubt on the vast majority of such memories, which are real.

I could only read the first one. As for what I think about it, I think it's very interesting.

I've read about stuff like that before, it's interesting. It's to do with how our brain groups memories under catergories then makes associations, however it dosen't work that way with some people, mostly savants or people with a good visual memory.

If I use the visual side of my memories, as opposed to the "normal" side, and thought about it for a bit, I could probably remember things fairly accurately.