Richard Addante, who has spent more than a decade researching episodic memory—the cognitive process that involves processing and retrieving long-term memory—has identified a new kind of human memory ...

Memory is not a recording device. It doesn't play back events like a video camera would. Instead, it's a remarkably active, creative process that reconstructs the past each time we reach for it.

Memory is much more than an archive of the past. It is the prism through which we see ourselves, others, and the world. It’s the connective tissue underlying what we say, think, and do. —Charan ...