Memory feels like a mental video archive, but psychologists have shown it behaves more like a creative editor, constantly ...

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

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

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 ...

In his new book, neuroscientist Steve Ramirez delves in the fast-growing field of memory manipulation, which is being explored as a treatment for depression and other mental health conditions. Reading ...

False memories are much harder to implant than previously claimed by memory researchers and expert witnesses in criminal trials, finds a new study led by researchers at UCL and Royal Holloway, ...

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 ...

OpenAI has quietly released a new feature that instructs ChatGPT to “remember” prior conversations — and as one researcher-slash-hacker found, it’s easily exploited. Released in beta in February and ...