Have you ever misremembered an event, while being totally certain it actually happened? Most people have experienced the unreliability of human memory. As it turns out, false memories are very easy to generate. Scientists at the Riken–M.I.T. Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created false memories in mice using a procedure they say would also work for humans.
False memories are very easy to generate
The scientists placed mice in an environment and kept track of where the memory of that place was being stored. Then they placed the mice in a second environment and gave them an electric shock while stimulating the memory of the first place. When reintroduced to the first environment,...
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