vices flow....

Hi,

I was reading an article, and came across with a sentence, which has been giving me a hard time for a while. Could someone help me interpreting the sentence? The sentence (and the preceding sentence) is as follows:

Today, the research that dominates public conversation is not about raw brain power but about the strengths and consequences of specific processes.  Daniel Schacter of Harvard University writes about the vices that flow from the way memory works.

The article is titled "The Waning of IQ" and it discusses whether IQ is the best measurement of human intelligence.

The part in bold is the part I've been having a hard time understanding. I, too, find this a bit hard to understand. It seems to suggest that bad habits, bad practices, result from the way that memory works. The way that these two sentences are written, I wouuld expect the author to follow them with an example of 'a vice that flows  . . . '.  

Best wishes, Clive

 

Schacter writes about the vices that flow from the way memory works. =
Schacter writes about the serious defects in thinking that are caused by the way memory works.

(Schacter is a brain scientist who is particularly interested in the creation of false memories.  Subjects in his experiments were given lists of words.  Later, they "recalled" certain words from the list even when those words were not really on the list, simply because the "recalled" words had similar meanings to those on the list.  Such experiments suggest that our ability to remember people exactly as they were and to remember events exactly as they happened is less secure than we often claim.)

CJ