Memory is not a video recorder, even though we might like to think it is. Our eyes are not lenses through which we perfectly capture reality. Our brain is not a flash hard drive. Rather, memory is ...

(CNN) — Does Mr. Monopoly wear a monocle? Is there a black stripe on Pikachu’s tail? And does the fruit in the Fruit of the Loom logo pour out of a cornucopia? If you answered yes to any of these ...

Source: Matthew Baxter, used with permission. In the recent court case of British former socialite and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, her legal team called in a false memory expert. False ...

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 ...

We think of memory as a reliable recording of our lives. But we also have false memories, often pieced together from communal ...

“Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,” Macbeth prayed. “Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow /Raze out the written ...

Have you ever been convinced that something is a particular way only to discover you’ve remembered it all wrong? If so, it sounds like you’ve experienced the phenomenon known as the Mandela Effect.

Human memory might be even more unreliable than currently thought. In a new study, scientists found that it’s possible for people to form false memories of an event within seconds of it occurring.

How can we be sure things actually happened the way we remember them? For example, why do siblings remember the same past events differently? This question has resulted in a lifetime career for ...

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 ...

Thus widespread incorrect information can subtly influence individual memories, giving rise to conspiracy theories and harmful false beliefs. Incorrect beliefs about the death of Nelson Mandela are ...