BRAIN connections that encourage the formation of false memories have been identified. Such memories appear to be more likely in people with high-quality links between neurons in a particular brain area.
Individuals often recall the same events differently or report memories of things they should have been too young to recall. To find out if a tendency to manufacture false memories is reflected in brain structure, at the University of Barcelona in Spain and colleagues induced them in 48 students in the lab.
The participants were asked to read four lists of 14 semantically related words, in which…
