Video. Memory, Emotions, & Decisions. Meanwhile, doubts about the standard theory of memory were piling up in the world outside the neuroscience lab.
In the early 1990s many people began reporting what seemed to be long-buried memories of childhood sexual abuse. These traumatic recollections frequently surfaced with the help of recovered-memory therapy techniques like hypnosis and guided imagery, in which patients are encouraged to visualize terrible experiences. The Journal of Neuroscience Online. Greater Good Science Center.