An instant under the mirror
Important peculiarities of the human memory system:
— A remarkable capacity for storing information is coupled with a highly fallible retrieval process.
— What is accessible in memory is highly dependent on the current environmental, interpersonal, emotional and body-state cues.
— Retrieving information from memory is a dynamic process that alters the subsequent state of the system.
— Access to competing memory representations regresses towards the earlier representation over time.
