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How The Brain Remembers

NPR's Michelle Trudeau reports on several new studies showing that it is relatively easy to trick the human brain in thinking that a suggestion is really a memory. Adults who listened to vivid descriptions of imaginary events later swore that the events had actually happened to them during childhood.

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