There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, ...

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 ...

Is your memory playing tricks on you? The Mandela effect refers to the experience of a false memory that many people share. In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that ...

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 ...