Schacter, Daniel2014-07-252013Schacter, Daniel L. 2013. “Memory: Sins and Virtues.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1303 (1) (November): 56–60.0077-8923http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12561014Memory plays an important role in everyday life but does not provide an exact and unchanging record of experience: research has documented that memory is a constructive process that is subject to a variety of errors and distortions. Yet these memory “sins” also reflect the operation of adaptive aspects of memory. Memory can thus be characterized as an adaptive constructive process, which plays a functional role in cognition but produces distortions, errors, or illusions as a consequence of doing so.en-USmemorycognitionexperiencebrainneuroscienceJournal Article2014-07-2510.1111/nyas.12168