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Remembered events are unexpected

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2018

Jean-Louis Dessalles
Jean-Louis Dessalles*
Affiliation:
LTCI, Telecom ParisTech, Universite Paris-Saclay, F-75013 Paris, France. dessalles@telecom-paristech.fr www.dessalles.fr
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Abstract

We remember a small proportion of our experiences as events. Are these events selected because they are useful and can be proven true, or rather because they are unexpected?

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e9
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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