Human Memory Amplifies, Agrandizes Inflates And Reframes Itself, With Time

Common Sense Commentary: Over years, our memories tend to expand or adjust to accommodate our preconceptions, preferences and changing ideals. Human memory does not align perfectly with what actually occurred or what God has on His record books. In police reports, eye witnesses who all saw and heard the same thing, give varying, differing testimony of what they thought they saw, sometimes radically different. Human perception, cognition and memory are no more absolute or perfect than all the other aspects of the human psyche. In every way, in our flesh, we are all faulty and imperfect, and will be until we, as Christians, are made perfectly whole ... when we see Him who is perfect... Jesus Christ ... "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." 1 Jn.3:2. Until that day we must be content with the knowledge and promise of Jesus that these mortal bodies, and minds are destined to be glorified "... whom he justified, them he also glorified." Rom.8:30. Let us rest in the promise and simply do our very best, with His help, to be honest, true and faithful in all things. That cannot be done without His abiding presence in us.

"For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?  And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.  What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one...." Rom.3:3-10.


New research from Northwestern Medicine identifies how the brain transforms memories.

"Our memory is not like a video camera," lead author Donna Jo Bridge, a postdoctoral fellow in medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine said in a press release. "Your memory reframes and edits events to create a story to fit your current world. It's built to be current."

To investigate how memories change, researchers studied the memory recall of 17 men and women. Participants were asked to study a computer image with 168 objects against various desktop backgrounds. They then were asked to place the objects in their original locations but on a new background. Every time, participants failed to place the objects in their original spots,

Investigators then showed participants one object in three locations on one screen, asking them to identify the object’s position on the original screen. Participants consistently chose the incorrect location they identified initially.

"This shows their original memory of the location has changed to reflect the location they recalled on the new background screen. Their memory has updated the information by inserting the new information into the old memory,” Bridge said.  

Researchers say this shows how memory is built to change. They identified the hippocampus as the brain’s equivalent of a film editor and special effects team– the site where memory editing happens.

"Everyone likes to think of memory as this thing that lets us vividly remember our childhoods or what we did last week," study author Joel Voss, assistant professor of medical social sciences and neurology at Northwestern, said. "But memory is designed to help us make good decisions in the moment and, therefore, memory has to stay up-to-date.”

Researchers noted that the study, which was published in the Journal of Neuroscience, was done in a controlled experimental setting but believe it reflects how memory behaves in the real world.
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Not one historic record, religious commentary, scientific statement or person is perfectly true ... except God Himself, His historic record, commentary and scientific knowledge. RB

That includes the article above and my own commentary. RB