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 that a woman had come up to me and said, "You're the greatest musician I've ever seen!"
Thank you," said I, "but why do you say that?" (At the time I was quite mediocre.) Because the first time I passed by you were playing banjo right-handed. Then I saw you playing guitar left-handed. Then you were playing bass right-handed. And then I saw you playing fiddle right -handed and then bass left-handed. You're amazing!!" "Thank you very much," I replied When I finished the story, my twin said, "what the hell are talking about? She said that to me and I told the story to YOU!" To this day I am still unsure of the truth but one us had a significant source error. Ed. Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Department of Psychology West Chester University of Pennsylvania http://home.comcast.net/~epollak ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Husband, father, grandfather, biopsychologist, bluegrass fiddler and herpetoculturist...... in approximate order of importance. Subject: The mother of all false memories? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:16:46 -0500 X-Message-Number: 5 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 Australian forensics expert named Donald Thomson who was a guest on a television show devoted to exploring the unreliability of eyewitness testimony: Not long afterward [Thomson] was summoned to a police precinct, put in a lineup, and identified by a woman as the man who had raped her. Though he had an incontrovertible alibi-he was on national television at the time of the attack and seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers-he was charged with the crime on the basis of her unwavering eyewitness testimony. It was only later, when an investigator discovered that the woman's television had been on during the assault, that it became clear that in the midst of her trauma, the woman had conflated Thomson's face with that of the rapist." --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
