Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2013 Nov;1303(1):56-60. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12168. Epub 2013 Aug 2.
Memory plays an important role in everyday life but does not provide an exact and unchanging record of experience: research has documented that memory is a constructive process that is subject to a variety of errors and distortions. Yet these memory "sins" also reflect the operation of adaptive aspects of memory. Memory can thus be characterized as an adaptive constructive process, which plays a functional role in cognition but produces distortions, errors, or illusions as a consequence of doing so.
记忆在日常生活中起着重要作用，但它不能提供准确且不变的经验记录：研究已经证明，记忆是一个具有多种错误和扭曲的建构过程。然而，这些记忆“过失”也反映了记忆适应性方面的运作。因此，记忆可以被描述为一个适应性的建构过程，它在认知中起着功能作用，但由于这样做会产生扭曲、错误或幻觉。
