This is where memory is essential to identity formation. The self is assembled not from everything that has happened to us, but from what the brain has chosen to preserve and retrieve.

​​There's a good chance you've done it without even thinking about it: set aside the crispiest French fry, saved the frosted ...

I’ve told stories before that felt honest in the moment and strangely exposed the next day. There were things that didn’t need to leave my mouth, but they did. There’s a difference between being open ...

In other words, get ready to grab your binoculars, says a group of brain researchers in Canada.