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Letter: First class post

Published 10 January 2018

From Pawel Pachniewski on Twitter:

But wait, it gets worse: we manipulate events so they're more like a good story

Pawel Pachniewski reflects on the finding that our brains make up good stories to fill in perception gaps (16 December 2017, p 28)

Issue no. 3160 published 13 January 2018

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