Memory recall can have inaccurate information {memory, errors} {recall, errors} that cannot have come from guessing or wrong cueing.
Without extra context, minds can make no distinction between mistake in storing memory, recalling memory, or making original perception.
properties: verbal errors
Typical verbal errors sound similar to accurate item.
properties: meaning
Errors can arise from trying to make events meaningful, because meaning is more important than detail. General concept stored with detail can change the detail. Context or assumptions can change memory logically.
memory change
Memory change happens in weak memories. Memory change can happen at storage, when misunderstandings cause coding misrepresentations. Memory change can happen at recall, when inferences override coded representations.
memory decay
For visual situations with attention but no rehearsal, activation loss decreases memory. Forgetting increases with time elapsed. However, people can later remember memories forgotten at one time, so information is still in memory.
recall
Recalling can change unconscious memories.
perception
Perception does not confound units and produces non-contradictory results, with no chimeras. Mind eliminates contradictions preconsciously, before conscious memory.
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