Celine van Golde

I've got this piece of information that there was a car involved, there might be broken glass, there might be victims there, there might be a second car that crashed into a tree.

So there's all little pieces of information that I'm trying to store in my network or in my neural network for this car crash.

And then I will tag it or I will put like a little reminder, like this is the car crash that I witnessed.

And because I know what a car crash is, maybe I've never experienced one before, but I've known it from TV about reading about it.

I can say this is a car crash.

And if I later on want to retrieve that information, I just have to think back about that tag that I gave it like car crash.

And then those details will come back.

So what can happen as well is that there's other car crashes that I've witnessed in TV shows and that also might like light up when I try to recall this original car crash that I've witnessed myself and I might recall some details that I've actually not witnessed but witnessed somewhere else.

Right.

If we think about really young kids, they might not have even have heard about a car crash.

So they just see these cars crashing into each other and they're like, oh, there's cars, there's broken glass, there's people that are injured.

But even like an injured person might be the very first time that they experience it.

So for them to coherently store that and then give it like one little tag becomes a lot more difficult.

So they often need to be

like assisted when they're trying to recall that information later on to coherently being able to recall everything that they've observed.

But we can still make mistakes because we have a lot of similar experiences.

So we might, if we don't remember specific detail, we might fill that gap into our memory with a detail from a previously experienced incident or something that we've witnessed somewhere else.

And when that happens, we call that a source monitoring mistake.

So we are confusing our sources.

between sources where this information is coming from.