An experimental study in the United States found that having a conversational AI insert slight misinformation into ...

We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present and prepare ...

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 ...

False memories can form for several different reasons. In many cases, memories are encoded improperly or become corrupted due ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his new book, neuroscientist Steve Ramirez delves in the fast-growing field of memory manipulation, which is being explored as a treatment for depression and other mental health conditions. Reading ...