Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. False memories are more than just misremembering someone's name. T-shirt tycoons Fruit of the Loom are both makers of functional, ...

Memory feels like a mental video archive, but psychologists have shown it behaves more like a creative editor, constantly rewriting the script. That is why people can be absolutely certain they ...

Close-up of a neuron on a black background that is firing (as shown by yellow glowing dots) with interconnected neurons in the background Your brain activity changes depending on whether you're ...

(CNN) — Does Mr. Monopoly wear a monocle? Is there a black stripe on Pikachu’s tail? And does the fruit in the Fruit of the Loom logo pour out of a cornucopia? If you answered yes to any of these ...

Is your memory playing tricks on you? The Mandela effect refers to the experience of a false memory that many people share. In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that ...

Researchers at MIT have implanted false memories into the brains of mice, causing them to be fearful of an event that didn't actually occur. This is a very important study that demonstrates just how ...

When intrusive thoughts in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) feature inaccurate memories, you may have false memory OCD. As with other subtypes of OCD, medication and psychotherapy can help treat ...

During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren’t stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those pieces must ...