Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. False memories are more than just misremembering someone's name. T-shirt tycoons Fruit of the Loom are both makers of functional, ...

If you distinctly remember the Berenstain Bears books being spelled "Berenstein" or you know Pikachu has a black-tipped tail, you're not alone, but you're not correct. Don't worry, your brain isn't ...

Memory feels like a mental video archive, but psychologists have shown it behaves more like a creative editor, constantly rewriting the script. That is why people can be absolutely certain they ...

The human brain is a complex, miraculous thing. As best we can tell, it’s the epitome of biological evolution. But it doesn’t come with any security software preinstalled. And that makes it ...

Close-up of a neuron on a black background that is firing (as shown by yellow glowing dots) with interconnected neurons in the background Your brain activity changes depending on whether you're ...

Why the brain fills in the gaps—even when it shouldn't Medically reviewed by Shaheen Lakhan, MD, PhD, FAAN Confabulation is when someone unconsciously remembers things that didn't happen. People who ...

Wendy Wisner is a journalist and international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC). She has written about all things pregnancy, maternal/child health, parenting, and general health and ...

Lawyers are often suspicious of so-called "eye-witness accounts" and rightly so. Hundreds of scientific studies in the past few decades have shown that the memories of people who observe complex ...

Beyond the distinction between true and false memories, researchers predicted that activity in the hippocampus would reflect the degree of similarity between the correct and false memory. They indeed ...

Over the past couple of decades, there has been an explosion of research into “false memories,” showing that our memory can be subtly altered by a variety of internal and external factors. Many ...