Ever wake up convinced something happened that actually didn’t? That vivid memory of a conversation with your friend, a movie you’re sure you watched, or an event that feels completely real but never ...

Our minds can play tricks, creating vivid recollections of events that never happened. These false memories, influenced by ...

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 ...

A new study reveals that intentional memory control—deciding what to remember or forget—is more powerful than emotional influence when forming long-term memories.

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, ...

It’s easy enough to explain why we remember things: multiple regions of the brain — particularly the hippocampus — are devoted to the job. It’s easy to understand why we forget stuff too: there’s only ...

Have you ever taken a moment to wonder whether those yesterdays of yours were real or not? Nothing is quite as unnerving yet intriguing as the belief that our past could be nothing more than an ...

The former U.S. Poet Laureate, who has a new book out this week, recommends five texts that interrogate how we narrate the ...

Déjà vu—the eerie feeling that a new moment has happened before—has puzzled scientists and philosophers for centuries.

This post is a review of Memory Lane: The Perfect Imperfect Ways We Remember. By Ciara Greene & Gillian Murphy. Princeton University Press. 232 pp. $29.95. Many people believe that their memories ...

Think of your happiest memory. A wedding, your child’s birth, or maybe just a perfect night out with friends. Sit with it for a moment. Remember the details. What were you wearing? What did it smell ...

Kelly Dever, a controversial witness in the Karen Read murder retrial who testified to having a “false memory,” has resigned from the Boston Police Department.