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You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe things which didn't happen at all if they're told them enough times.

If memories were indeed like what a camera records, they could be forgotten, or they could fade so that they are no longer clear and vivid. But it would be difficult to explain how people could have memories that are both clear and vivid while also being wrong. Yet that happens, and it is not infrequent.

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

Oh yes, as a matter of fact it is quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.