People regularly recall childhood events falsely, and through effective suggestions and other methods, it's been proven that they can even create new false memories. A person’s malleable ...

Why the brain fills in the gaps—even when it shouldn't Medically reviewed by Shaheen Lakhan, MD, PhD, FAAN Our memory isn't ...

Whose memory is it anyway? How and why are false memories formed? It's tempting to think of our long-term memories as static and unchanging - but they're not. Memory is dynamic, often a blend of ...

Having false memories is very normal — we are all built from real and false memories, said Gerald Echterhoff, a social psychologist specializing in memory at the University of Münster, Germany ...

Written by Dr Julia Shaw, host of Bad People on BBC Sounds. False memories raise questions about how our memory works, whether we can accurately remember important life events, and the mainstream ...

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opens in a new tab that by artificially activating the small set of cells that stored a specific memory in a mouse, they could create a new, false memory. In that study, the team made the cells that ...

This article discusses the reliability of children who are called as witnesses in court cases.