In A Nutshell

Separating false memories from real ones is a tricky thing; sometimes our brain creates false memories to protect itself, or, occasionally, on accident when it puts together information in such a way that it suddenly revolves around us instead of the friend we heard the story from. But science can tell the difference. The body has a series of involuntary movements that can reveal whether we’re remembering something that really happened or not, and our brain waves actually follow different patterns when they’re retrieving something we’ve actually seen, heard, or experienced and filed away for future use.

The Whole Bushel

Memory is a funny thing, and we all know that we can’t always count on it to be truthful with us. False memories are extremely easy to develop, and very easy to have implanted in our minds. Sometimes our brain does it to protect itself. But, that’s not always a good thing, especially when we have to rely on eyewitness testimony to determine what really happened in a crime or an accident. Different than lying, false memories happen when a person really, truly believes that what they’re remembering is the truth, even if it’s something they’ve constructed from overheard information or other sources...

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