Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has found ways to plant memories in mice. Here's what that could mean for humans.

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 ...

False memories cause real problems. A false identification sends an innocent person to prison. A false childhood memory can disrupt a family. But what if there are ways to reverse false memories? What ...

That uncanny feeling strikes without warning. You walk into a room you have never visited before, yet everything seems strangely familiar. You know with absolute certainty that you have never been ...

Psychological Science, the flagship journal of the Association for Psychological Science, is one of the premier journals in its field, with a citation ranking/impact factor that places it in the top ...

Source: Matthew Baxter, used with permission. In the recent court case of British former socialite and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, her legal team called in a false memory expert. False ...

When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported a vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to store false information and malicious instructions in a user’s long-term memory ...

OpenAI has quietly released a new feature that instructs ChatGPT to “remember” prior conversations — and as one researcher-slash-hacker found, it’s easily exploited. Released in beta in February and ...

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