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A Sense of Self: Memory, the Brain, and Who We Are Cookbook_Gift_Guide and plan the futureHow do our brains store and then conjure up past experiences to make us who we are? A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our everyday lives. This process shapes us: filtering the world around us, informing our behavior and feeding our imagination. Psychiatrist Veronica O'Keane