A new Netflix documentary suggests that the notorious Charles Manson may have used CIA mind-control techniques. Is this ...

People regularly recall childhood events falsely, and through effective suggestions and other methods, it's been proven that they can even create new false memories. A person’s malleable ...

Or why we think something happened when it didn't Medically reviewed by Shaheen Lakhan, MD, PhD, FAAN A false memory is a fabricated or distorted recollection of an event. Such memories may be ...

Where others were shocked or crying, I felt calm. But I know this memory to be false. There were no TV shops in our village, and my grandmother never walked me home from school — she lived too ...

Experts don't know exactly what causes the Mandela effect, or false memories shared by a group. It may happen when your mind blends events and images or tries to fill in gaps with prior knowledge.

People with schizophrenia may be more likely to experience false memories. Symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions concerning things that are not real may give rise to a person believing ...

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Written by Dr Julia Shaw, host of Bad People on BBC Sounds. False memories raise questions about how our memory works, whether we can accurately remember important life events, and the mainstream ...

Yet, paradoxically, we rarely remember any fragment of our existence before the age of three, and complete memories usually don’t form until around six. Some people claim to recall their first steps ...

Whose memory is it anyway? How and why are false memories formed? It's tempting to think of our long-term memories as static and unchanging - but they're not. Memory is dynamic, often a blend of ...

Whose memory is it anyway? How and why are false memories formed? It's tempting to think of our long-term memories as static and unchanging - but they're not. Memory is dynamic, often a blend of ...