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Why Your Memory Seems Bad (It’s Not Just Age)

The Art of Manliness

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Imaginative Construction and Memory Imagination

Creativity in writing allows for the exploration of new perspectives by not replaying the past but creating an imaginative construction of how things could have been. Drawing on Bartlett's idea from 1930, it is revealed that we use memory to supplement imagination. We do not imagine things out of thin air, but based on the semantic knowledge we possess, filling in the blanks and adding meaning to our past.

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