You 2.0: Did That Really Happen?
Hidden Brain
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Memory and the War of the Ghosts
In the 19 thirties, frederick bartlett set up an experiment that revealed a very interesting aspect of memory. The experiment revolved around a story, a native american legend called the war of the ghosts. Frederick bartlet tested the volunteers on what they remembered of the story sometimes hours later, sometimes dayseve months and years later. What he found was there were these systematic changes to the way these individuals were recalling they forgot details that were foreign to them.
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