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"kept more or less Permanently"

There is a relatively permanent physical change in the brain itelf when a memory is formed. That does not mean that people can always retrieve those memories. The memories may be available but not accessible, meaning that they are still there, but people can not get to them.

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"Psychology" saundra k. Ciccarelli j. Noland White 2012

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