Your feelings about memories shape your decisions
People base their decisions on subjective memory—how they feel about a memory—more than on its accuracy, researchers report. When we recall a memory, we retrieve specific details about it: where, when, with whom. But we often also experience a vivid feeling of remembering the event, sometimes almost reliving it. Memory researchers call these processes objective and subjective memory, respectively. The new study shows that objective and subjective memory can function independently and involve different parts of the brain. “The study distinguishes between how well we remember and how well...