“ Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Is there a chance that you’re remembering incorrectly? And where have the many details you can no longer recall gone? Are they hidden somewhere in your brain, or are they gone forever ? ” wrote Alison Winter wrote in her book about the fragments of memory. Is everything we hear, see, smell, feel—in short, everything we experience—being recorded and stored somewhere ? Where is this place ? How is it that we remember …