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‘Memory’ by Alison Winter

By Glenn C. Altschuler

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 18, 2012

Most folks, according to Alison Winter, a University of Chicago history professor, believe that time cannot rewrite memory because “the truth’’ eventually will emerge from the archives in our brains. In the 20th century, however, neurobiologists and cognitive psychologists have advanced a rival model of memory as “constructive, messy, and changeable.’’ In “Memory,’’ Winter provides a fascinating chronicle of conflicts over brainwashing, forensic hypnotism, reincarnation, and recovered memory that have ensued among researchers, in courtrooms, and across American popular culture.

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