Ramirez and colleague Xu Liu, PhD, made international news several years ago when they essentially planted a
false memory in the brain of a mouse.
Self-referencing and
false memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer's disease.
Supposing Skinner's account has credence, it appears that one environmental source of DRM-like
false memory phenomena involves a history of contiguous usage with study words.
When a person could remind some events which would not be occurred in real, here
false memory is working.
Low levels of
false memory in free-recall studies prevented a thorough assessment of this issue (Buchanan et al., 2006; Talmi & Moscovitch, 2004).
False memory, as Brainerd and Reyna explain it, is not merely memory fallibility or forgetting: It refers to circumstances where one is possessed of positive, definite memories of an event that did not happen, or happened at least, differently than that reflected by memory.
Stereotypes Drive Recall Errors and
False Memory Generation C.
The
False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) was founded in 1992 by Pamela and Peter Freyd, after Peter was accused of sexually molesting their daughter Jennifer, a professor of psychology.
Thus, prior individual testing might contribute to
false memory. Although some experiments on collaborative memory research have included prior individual testing and some have not, none that have measured
false memory used prior individual tests.
Over 90 percent of them remembered a word that was not given to them, thus creating a
false memory.
Brainerd, the author of The Science of
False Memory, says, "Law is about what people say and report, and what they say is what they remember.