drop folks memories. how is it possible that over the course of millions of years humans have not been able to develop a reliable memory mechanism after all computers can store vast quantities of data on human simply condemned to go through life with a faulty memory bank. of the university have to lose in france pascal ruling has been studying the mechanisms that cause these problems he's found out that we can alter our memories just by retrieving them. calls this the hamas a fisherman syndrome. or quality showing. let's say a fisherman has caught a fish that's ten centimeters long as it is and he makes a mental note of the size if someone asks him about it the next day he may