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Letter: What triggers memory?

Published 22 November 2006

From Michael Grounds

Keith Kendrick says animals have “only limited volitional control over calling up memories”, and that events in the present trigger memories that control their behaviour (28 October, p 26). How does that differ from the human experience?

Strathfieldsaye, Victoria, Australia

Issue no. 2579 published 25 November 2006

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