Simpson, Ted Bundy and Rodney King trials.
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One explanation for this difference is that recollection is strongly associated with the medial temporal lobe, while familiarity is associated with frontoparietal regions.Cabeza found that high confidence for true memories was associated with greater medial temporal lobe activity, while for false memories it was associated with greater frontoparietal activity in the brain.
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The brain can distinguish between false and true memories.How it works: Our memory system often fails not only because we forget things that happen, but also because we remember things that didn't happen, says Cabeza. Even blatantly doctored photographs - with written disclaimers - of the 2012 London Olympic torch relay and the 2011 Royal Wedding led a subset of viewers to believe more violent protestors had been present and more people arrested at these events than actually were.And researchers are concerned about how immediately replaying photos and videos will affect how we remember experiences. What's new: In an age of AI, deepfakes and doctored photographs, misinformation can subtly sculpt our memories. People can be “very confident in things that never happened,” Duke neuroscientist Roberto Cabeza tells Axios. But sometimes it’s life-altering: eyewitness testimony that leads to the wrongful conviction of innocent people. Sometimes it’s subtle: thinking you saw a yield sign when you saw a stop sign.
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Why it matters: Everyone is vulnerable to false memory. And then there’s false memory, our memory of an event that never actually happened.