The Proust Effect: What a Smell Actually Brings Back
Why odor-cued memories feel older and more emotional than memories cued any other way — what the research supports, what it doesn’t, and what’s still open.
Journal pillar
The remembering self
What research says about how autobiographical memory behaves — and what that means for revisiting your own past.
This is the cluster for how memory works rather than how to work it: why some decades take up more room, why a smell returns an older scene, and why vividness is never proof of accuracy. Each piece stays inside what the literature supports.
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Coming to this pillar
- The reminiscence bump
- Why vivid memories can still be wrong