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False memories

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Marc Arginteanu
Oct 17, 2023
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Electrical activity in the hippocampus is different when your memory is wrong. In 2023, Scientists at UPenn tested the brain waves of volunteers and asked them to memorize a list of words. The hippocampus (a key memory related brain structure) emitted distinct brain wave (EEG) patterns, depending on whether the volunteers memory was true or false. True …

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