false memory
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The most pronounced effects were seen in false memory and source memory, which help people accurately recall information and determine where that information came from.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026
This isn’t the same as confabulation, or making a false memory, because what is recalled really happened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
U.S.-based scientists created a false memory in the mind of a mouse after identifying the brain cells responsible for encoding memories.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
One expert said she had created a false memory in order to repress her actions, to "block out the bad bits, the bits that are hard to live with".
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2023
“With a false memory, like they give them. Had you thought of that?”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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