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

The mouse’s negative memory of being shocked in Box B had, essentially, been remapped to what was previously a neutral memory of Box A. The scientists had created a false memory, another seminal feat.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2025

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

The scientists used lasers to activate the rodent’s brain cells and implant a false memory, which was hailed as a neuroscience breakthrough by Smithsonian Magazine after the experiment’s results were published 10 years ago.

From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2023

I did not want to raise you in fear or false memory.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates