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By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a report in the Oct. 16 issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.
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According to a new review of neuroscientific research, coercive interrogation techniques used during the Bush administration to extract information from terrorist suspects are likely to have been unsuccessful and may have had many unintended negative effects on the suspect's memory and brain functions.
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Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that fake video evidence can dramatically alter people's perceptions of events, even convincing them to testify as an eyewitness to an event that never happened.
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Research increasingly suggests that eyewitness testimony may not be as accurate as we would like it to be. A new study examining how false information following a recall test affects volunteers' memories of a witnessed event suggests that recalled information is prone to distortion. These results suggest that the recall test may have improved subjects' ability to learn the false information -- that it enhanced learning of new and erroneous information.
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Our memories of highly charged events from our past can be completely incorrect and many of us can easily be persuaded we have seen things which never happened
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New research into the human memory has found that it is possible to plant false memories in the human mind that can have significant long-term effects on behavior.
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People can easily create false memories of their past and a new study shows that such memories can have long-term effects on our behavior.
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The experience of false memories, known as confabulation, appears centered in the inferior medial prefrontal cortex
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