An experimental study in the United States found that having a conversational AI insert slight misinformation into ...

False memories cause real problems. A false identification sends an innocent person to prison. A false childhood memory can disrupt a family. But what if there are ways to reverse false memories? What ...

During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren't stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those pieces must ...

False memories are much harder to implant than previously claimed by memory researchers and expert witnesses in criminal trials, finds a new study led by researchers at UCL and Royal Holloway, ...

Source: Matthew Baxter, used with permission. In the recent court case of British former socialite and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, her legal team called in a false memory expert. False ...

We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present and prepare ...

False memories can form for several different reasons. In many cases, memories are encoded improperly or become corrupted due ...

Implanting false memories of a bad experience with alcohol could prevent people abusing alcohol in later life, a Canadian researcher says. Dr Dan Bernstein from Kwantlen University College, shows that ...

In his new book, neuroscientist Steve Ramirez delves in the fast-growing field of memory manipulation, which is being explored as a treatment for depression and other mental health conditions. Reading ...

Psychological Science, the flagship journal of the Association for Psychological Science, is one of the premier journals in its field, with a citation ranking/impact factor that places it in the top ...