The surprising link between false memories and imagination

In his memoir Uncle Tungsten , British neurologist Oliver Sacks described two bombing incidents from his childhood during the Blitz. One involved a bomb that landed near his family’s home but failed to explode. The other involved a thermite bomb that fell behind the house, which Sacks remembered in vivid detail. A few months after the book came out, Sacks mentioned the incidents to his older…

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