A strong memory sounds like an unmitigated good, but science shows that vivid recall can distort your reality, fuel anxiety ...

Activists wearing eye masks, hold posters reading ‘Repeated deepfake sex crimes, the state is an accomplice too’ during a protest against deepfake porn in Seoul ...

Picture the Monopoly Man. Is he wearing a top hat? How about a monocle? The first is true, but if you imagined the board game mascot with fancy eyewear, you have experienced a false memory. False ...

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 ...

An experimental study in the United States found that having a conversational AI insert slight misinformation into conversations with users increased false memory occurrence and reduced memories of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Deepasri Prasad, Dartmouth College and Wilma Bainbridge, University of Chicago (THE ...

How much can we trust our memories? We know that our mind keeps an imperfect record of the past. We can forget or misremember details, with frustrating consequences. Our attention can be diverted in ...

This post is a review of Memory Lane: The Perfect Imperfect Ways We Remember. By Ciara Greene & Gillian Murphy. Princeton University Press. 232 pp. $29.95. Many people believe that their memories ...

Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward. They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic. Semantic memories consist of remembered facts not personally ...