Michael Greenberg has a long and interesting review of a new book by Sue
Halpern called _Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the
Front Lines of Memory Research_. The review is quite positive about the
book.
I especially liked this from the review:
"Halpern recounts the case of an A
Similar to the story cited by Stephen but not nearly so dramatic:
My twin brother & I were at a bluegrass festival at the Pine Hotel in the
Catskills. He was left-handed and played guitar & bass fiddle. I am
right-handed and play fiddle, banjo & bass. The story I later related to my
family was
A few points:
(1) I'm not sure why one would call the Thomson case the "mother
of all false memories" because the only really significant thing about
it was that his alibi was that he was on TV at the time of the rape
and this was true.
(2) The Thomson case is not news and has been presented in
On 30 Nov 2008 at 10:40, Pollak, Edward wrote:
> Similar to the story cited by Stephen but not nearly so dramatic:
>
> My twin brother & I were at a bluegrass festival at the Pine Hotel in the
> Catskills. [snip]
Neat story, Ed (both: the original and whose memory it was). Mirror
image twin
