Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has found ways to plant memories in mice. Here's what that could mean for humans.

Research highlights how collective false memories, a mystery that pushes the boundaries of science, challenge our understanding and defy explanation. Nelson Mandela, renowned freedom fighter and ...

Remembering Satan, Lawrence Wright's widely read book, profiles a 1980s father who "remembers" inflicting ritual abuse on his daughters. The book blames false memories primarily on interrogators who ...

Our minds can play tricks, creating vivid recollections of events that never happened. These false memories, influenced by suggestion and imagination, can impact everything from personal relationships ...

A thief sneaks into a museum late at night. They pass by a pair of statues—or were they suits of armor? You see them take a necklace. Or wait. Didn’t the news report say it was a watch? Our memories ...

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 ...

NO ONE has done more than Elizabeth Loftus to expose the fallibility of human memory. In the 1990s, amid growing panic over claims of satanic child sex abuse rings, the psychologist showed how easy it ...

Anne P. DePrince has received funding from the Department of Justice, National Institutes of Health, State of Colorado, City of Denver, Colorado Evaluation and Action Lab. She has received honoraria ...

AI-generated visuals threaten to replace evidence with emotion, law with outrage, and history with illusion. When false ...

Attorneys for disgraced former film producer Harvey Weinstein are attempting to use an expert on "false memory" to discredit a witness at his upcoming trial, but prosecutors are trying to block the ...