Leyla Sanai

Memory – and the stuff of dreams

Veronica O’Keane explains how the stimuli of all our senses are key factors in the way we process the past — both awake and asleep

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  • The Rag and Bone Shop: How We Make Memories and How Memories Make Us

    Veronica O’Keane

    Allen Lane, pp. 288, £20

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