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When different languages store different memories

My memory works completely differently in Portuguese versus English and I'm starting to worry about which version of my past is actually true.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Language-dependent memory encoding is revealing the constructed nature of personal history and threatening narrative coherence.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Language learning and cognitive effects?”

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