Memory has practical, intellectual and emotional uses. We talk about our memories – both happy and sad, as well as incidental – in order to build an autobiographical picture, for ourselves and others, of how we became who we are. We also ‘remember’ the skills and practices that we have learnt along the way and enable us to go about our daily lives. Along with these, we remember long lists of facts and information, some of which we need and are interested in and some of which are random and might help us win the pub quiz.
Neuroscience is increasingly finding out more about the way our memory works, and it seems very likely that our feelings, sensory perceptions and experiences are all bound up together in the way that memory develops (Bruce, Meggit and Grenier 2010).
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