The human brain is a complex, miraculous thing. As best we can tell, it’s the epitome of biological evolution. But it doesn’t come with any security software preinstalled. And that makes it ...

Rich false memories of autobiographical events can be planted - and then reversed, a new article has found. Rich false memories of autobiographical events can be planted -- and then reversed, a new ...

Journal of Advertising, Vol. 43, No. 1 (January–March 2014), pp. 3-17 (15 pages) False memories are generally viewed as "dumb," in the sense of being caused by deficient processing, but recent ...

Memory is not a video recorder, even though we might like to think it is. Our eyes are not lenses through which we perfectly capture reality. Our brain is not a flash hard drive. Rather, memory is ...

Thus widespread incorrect information can subtly influence individual memories, giving rise to conspiracy theories and harmful false beliefs. Incorrect beliefs about the death of Nelson Mandela are ...

Human memory might be even more unreliable than currently thought. In a new study, scientists found that it’s possible for people to form false memories of an event within seconds of it occurring.

Attending a conference of the Committee of Scientific Inquiry recently held in Nashville, Tennessee, one of the high points was a symposium on belief and memory. Moderated by Dr. Ray Hyman, a pioneer ...

We think of memory as a reliable recording of our lives. But we also have false memories, often pieced together from communal ...

We all want other people to "get us" and appreciate us for who we really are. In striving to achieve such relationships, we typically assume that there is a "real me." But how do we actually know who ...