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Quote by Frederic Bartlett
Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces.
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The quote rejects the idea that remembering means bringing countless fixed, lifeless fragments back to life. It presents memory as something other than replaying scattered traces stored unchanged. In ordinary terms, remembering is not simply recovering a collection of separate, frozen pieces.
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- Cambridge University Press, BJPsych Advances
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