By the way, Wolfgang, my remark about the Bar Association was intended as a joke--referring to how much stock the legal system puts in the detailed "memory" of witnesses--not as a comment on your research ethics. Remember the classic college psychology experiment/demonstration where the professor arranges for a brief but complex little drama to unfold at the front of a lecture hall, and then none of the student "eyewitnesses" can recount exactly what happened? I'm presuming that the ramifications of that scenario are at least marginally related to your "illusions of memory."

Also, would you know if there is any new evidence or theory on eidetic memory (commonly misnamed "photographic memory"), especially with regard to auditory memory? I've noticed that if I hear a "cover" of a song I haven't listened to in years, I can still tell that it's not the original, even if it's a very close mimic. That seems related to the person with eidetic visual memory being able to pick out the one item in an array that's been moved. There--I knew I could bring music into this discussion (besides Alex's song, of course)!

Aloha,
Mark