Experts don't know exactly what causes the Mandela effect, or false memories shared by a group. It may happen when your mind blends events and images or tries to fill in gaps with prior knowledge.

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 ...

Confabulations are false memories a person spontaneously generates, often to compensate for holes in a person’s memory. For example, a person who does not recall what happened to Nelson Mandela might ...

False memories cause real problems. A false identification sends an innocent person to prison. A false childhood memory can disrupt a family. But what if there are ways to reverse false memories? What ...

I've spent the last three weeks inside courtroom 318 of the Thurgood Marshall federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, observing the Ghislaine Maxwell trial gavel to gavel. Maxwell, the former ...