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the brain's least reliable witness, testifying with total confidence in a court that always believes it
means To bring something back to mind, or to summon something or someone back — whether a memory, a defective product, or an elected official.
from From the Latin-flavored prefix 're-' ('back, again') bolted onto 'call,' which comes through Old English 'ceallian' and is closely related to Old Norse 'kalla,' 'to cry out.' So the literal sense is 'to call back' — and English built it in the 1500s as a tidy translation of the older 'revoke' (Latin 'revocare,' same idea, fancier robes). The memory sense — calling a thought back from wherever it wandered off to — followed naturally.
false memoriesCan be implanted with simple suggestion alone
reconstructionMemories are rebuilt each time, not replayed
tip of tongueUniversal across nearly every studied language
car defectsMillions recalled yearly, most owners never respond
testing effectRecalling beats rereading for long-term learning