How False Memories Are Formed, ScienceDaily Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: False memories are the controversial subject of hotly contested arguments about the validity of repressed memories that can surface years after a traumatic event and about the credibility of eyewitness accounts in criminal trials. Because memories are imperfect under ordinary circumstances - forming, storing and retrieving them, with great variations in factors influencing those processes - it is unlikely that a one-answer-fits-all will settle those controversies soon. (...) "Our challenge was to bring people into the laboratory and set up a circumstance in which they would remember something that did not happen," (...)