Professor Bridget Robinson-Riegler spoke with WCCO-TV about how humans recall their memories聽for the聽news station鈥檚 Good Question segment. Robinson-Riegler, who teaches in the College鈥檚 psychology聽department, explained to television viewers that its common for聽individuals to have mismemories. She commented that memories are not like tape recorders in that people聽replay them exactly as they happened. Instead, memories聽are reconstructed, so when the聽brain encodes memories, it聽encodes different pieces of different events.
鈥淲hen we go to recall it, we piece together different aspects of events,鈥� Robinson-Riegler聽said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not just the event that happened we鈥檙e trying to remember but other events similar to it.鈥�
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