Tagged: false memories

How Reliable is Your Memory? Your Identity?

Almost a Superhero / Author Resources / Drew's Book Posts
07/30/2018

As disturbing as it may be when you take time to investigate and think deeply about it, studies about the depth of inaccuracies we inadvertently create in our memories is quite fascinating. Julia Shaw’s recent book The Memory Illusion shows...

Scientists Manipulating Memory

Almost a Superhero / Author Resources / Drew's Book Posts
01/13/2015

Breaking edge science can now create false memories, erase memories, and recover lost memories. Fascinating – and scary – scientific discoveries about memories abound lately. Fairly recent research from MIT discovered that memories are not stored in synaptic tissue as...