Word: cryptomnesia
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...Psychologists refer to the phenomenon as ‘cryptomnesia,’” Schacter wrote in an e-mail. “Psychologists conceive of cryptomnesia as a failure of source memory, where one retrieves previously stored information, and attributes that information to the wrong source...
...ESSAY which accompanies the record, Dr. W. H. C. Tenhaeff, Professor of Psychology at the State University of Utrecht, talks of cryptomnesia, the phenomenon by which people produce what seems to be supernaturally inspired work, when in fact they are only calling back to mind forgotten experiences. The example he gives is of a woman who was able to write Arabic quotations, although she was totally innocent of the language. It was later discovered that she had, as a child seen the phrases which she wrote, in her physician's office, and had merely brought them back to mind. This...
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