A ‘Memory Hacker’ Explains How to Plant False Memories in People’s Minds – Motherboard

A ‘Memory Hacker’ Explains How to Plant False Memories in People’s Minds

We tend to think of memories as perfect little time capsules-important records of past events that matter to us and made us who we are, as unchangeable as a dragonfly stuck in amber. Well, they’re anything but. I recently met with Julia Shaw, a criminal psychologist who specializes in the science of memory.