title: Memory: sins and virtues.
abstract: Memory plays an important role in everyday life but does not provide an exact and unchanging record of experience: research has documented that memory is a constructive process that is subject to a variety of errors and distortions. Yet these memory "sins" also reflect the operation of adaptive aspects of memory. Memory can thus be characterized as an adaptive constructive process, which plays a functional role in cognition but produces distortions, errors, or illusions as a consequence of doing so.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Daniel L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Schacter
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination / Q000502:physiology; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: brain; cognition; experience; memory; neuroscience
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