The failing memories of older adults, including their tendency to remember things that never happened, are not an inevitable consequence of aging, suggests research from Washington University in ...

False memories arise because the human brain is fundamentally a recreation engine, absorbing data from our senses and constructing a perception of reality rather than displaying a raw one. This ...

Fueled by the Franklin case, Loftus designed a false-memory experiment: In it, researchers reminded participants of three real events from their childhoods — the stories having been obtained ...

Weizmann Institute scientists track brain activity as false memories are formed, revealing how social pressure can affect what we remember.

In the experiment, Oeberst had another interviewer ask participants to identify whether any of their memories could be false, by simply thinking critically about them.

The work of the leading memory expert Elizabeth Loftus has been illustrative in showing just how fragile human memory is. In her experiments, Loftus managed to prove that a large number of people ...

The team had, in effect, implanted a false memory in the mice. “The key thing with that experiment was that we showed that we could artificially activate a memory while the animal was ...

"The Mandela Effect is a pervasive false memory where people are very confident about a memory they have that's incorrect," Bainbridge tells Yahoo. It's often associated with pop culture.