Remember the telephone game where people take turns
whispering a message into the ear of the next person in line? By the time the last
person speaks it out loud, the message has radically changed. It’s been altered
with each retelling.
Turns out your memory is a lot like the telephone game,
according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
Every time you remember an event from the past, your brain
networks change in ways that can alter the later recall of the event. Thus, the
next time you remember it, you might recall not the original event but what you
remembered the previous time. The Northwestern study is the first to show this.