Many people believe that their memories preserve events exactly as they occurred and store them in their brains. But, as Elizabeth Loftus, an influential psychologist, has demonstrated, “Memory works ...

it turns out false memories can be formed much quicker. Now researchers have devised an experiment to test how and how quickly this can happen. What is a polymicrobial infection? What to know ...

Created with Sketch. The misinformation effect refers to the creation of false memories as a result of processing new information. In a famous experiment, researcher Elizabeth Loftus demonstrated ...

Researchers deliver bursts of light to specific cells in the mouse hippocampus to implant false memories about a fearful event ... A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food ...