We have a lot of opinions about memory, ours and other people's, but most of us don't know a whole lot about how it works and why it fails us so spectacularly sometimes. Rebecca Rupp has a Ph.D in cell biology and is the author of “Committed to Memory“. She fills in some of the pieces of this puzzle.

[part 2 of a 6-part series on memory]

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