The future can shape memory for the present.
A recent study demonstrates that memory for ostensibly irrelevant events can be enhanced when new information reveals that those events are important. These findings emphasize that memories are malleable, such that new information can update the priority and content of existing memory traces.
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA. Electronic address: Elizabeth.kensinger@bc.edu.
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