Remembering Satan, Lawrence Wright's widely read book, profiles a 1980s father who "remembers" inflicting ritual abuse on his daughters. The book blames false memories primarily on interrogators who ...

In every war, truth is fragile. But in the Gaza conflict, truth is not merely endangered but it is being deliberately ...

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 ...

Have you ever been certain that something happened, only to later realize it never did? These experiences are more common than you might think. Known as false memories, they are recollections that ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Scientists have found that memories are not static records but dynamic processes that change the brain’s wiring ...

False memories are much harder to implant than previously claimed by memory researchers and expert witnesses in criminal trials, finds a new study led by researchers at UCL and Royal Holloway, ...

Eyewitness memory is not entirely reliable. This unreliability can derive from inherent limitations in the perception of criminal acts (including relative darkness, brevity of exposure, and occlusion ...

Every memory you ever had is in some respects a hallucination. You can see a scene, feel a feeling, even smell a smell at a time and in a context in which they didn’t occur at all. That’s both good ...

Gabrielle Principe does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. At a cemetery in eastern China, bereaved father Seakoo Wu places his phone on a gravestone and plays a recording of his son. They are words that the late student ...