From the article " memory isn’t a facsimile of past perceptions that gets replayed. Instead, it is more like a reconstruction of the original experience, based

From the article " memory isn’t a facsimile of past perceptions that gets replayed. Instead, it is more like a reconstruction of the original experience, based on its semantic content." I thought memories as reconstruction not recall model was an already pretty commonly accepted view. One of the examples were people with seemingly perfect memories of their lives. On closer inspection it turned these perfect memories were actual constant replays/refreshes. EDIT: One example I remember reading about was that Nixon aide who claimed perfect recall but actually he was was conflating multiple dates into one. So it is with us with our childhood memories, we might be conflating multiple occurrences into one when we reconstruct our stories.