Sentences with phrase «on false memories»

After seven years and $ 15 million in prosecution expenses, some charges were dropped and the defendants were acquitted of others when it became clear some of the accusations were based on false memories, some possibly planted by childrens» therapists.
In 2016, she was awarded the prestigious John Maddox Prize for her pursuit of sound science in the face of death threats, lawsuits and personal attacks stemming from her work as an expert witness in prosecutions resting on false memories.

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, not to mention increasing your risk of a variety of seriously unpleasant health problems, but here's one effect of skimping on sleep that you probably never expected — it can give you false memories.
The International Neuroethics Society co-sponsored the evening session that traced the emergence of lying in children, the world of false memories and the state of the science on pathological lying disorders.
Based on years of research on how such false memories are planted, Loftus has found they can result from patients undergoing types of psychotherapy, including hypnosis and sexualized dream interpretation popular in the 1990s, or when false information is slipped into a conversation following a highly stressful interrogation or event.
As our memories fade, the qualifier on the statement may fade too, leaving us with the false idea that brie really is the next cocaine.
False memories appear to work only for foods you don't eat on a regular basis — if you had one awful experience with chocolate as a child, you've probably had enough positive ones since to override it.
The Maddox Prize organizers said of this year's winner: «Professor Loftus is best known for her ground - breaking work on the «misinformation effect» which demonstrates that the memories of eyewitnesses are altered after being exposed to incorrect information about an event, as well as her work on the creation and nature of false memories.
The good news is that we are not on the verge of what the Boston Globe has called a «Matrix - like cyberpunk dystopia» in which we all become robohumans, controlled by implants that «impose false memories» and «scan for wayward thoughts.»
McNally thinks that one reason abductees, who by all other measures are sane and healthy individuals, are more vulnerable to false memories is that «they score higher on measures of fantasy and absorption, which is the ability, for instance, to get lost in daydreams or be utterly entranced by a sunset.
Spurred on by the controversy over recovered memory, other cognitive scientists found that false memory is a normal phenomenon.
«People should create detailed images with unique characteristics to help avoid the endorsement of false memories on recognition - based tests like true / false or multiple - choice assessments, where you are tempted by lures and possible false memories
The good news is that we are not on the verge of what The Boston Globe has called a «Matrix - like cyberpunk dystopia» in which we all become robohumans, controlled by implants that «impose false memories» and «scan for wayward thoughts.»
The recovered - memory group scored significantly higher than any of the other three on false remembering.
The group produced significantly more false memories on the same word - retrieval test, just as the women with recovered memories of sexual abuse had.
And these false memories can take on a life of their own, with profound legal, political, and social consequences.
McNally thinks that one reason abductees, who are on all other measures sane and healthy individuals, are more vulnerable to false memories is a trait called absorption: «They score higher on measures of fantasy and absorption, which is the ability, for instance, to get lost in daydreams or be utterly entranced by a sunset.
It also appears to reduce some people's likelihood of formulating false memories, and seems to have a lasting improvement on some people's ability to work with numbers.
Only humans have false memories; animals do not unless, like the mice at MIT, false memories are forced on them, he said.
«This study gives us information on the basic mechanism that could be happening in the brain when memories or false memories are formed,» says Ramirez.
Dr. Julia Shaw, a memory scientist and criminal psychologist, did a Reddit AMA on the science of false memory.
The movie focused on a man who seeks to import false memories into his mind and inadvertently realizes that the life he's living is a complete lie.
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A 2013 research paper showed that a false memory in the brain looks much like a real memory and that at least from experiments conducted on mice it is possible to implant these memories in others.
I have a history of constructing vivid but sometimes revealed to be false memories of favorite paintings by artists I love: a painting will be a lodestar in my mind, and I will remember not just it, but the wall of the museum or gallery that it hung on, and perhaps at the core of my memory is my memory of myself at the instant of seeing it.
On Saturday, October 23rd, the gallery will host a poetry reading by celebrated English poet Tony Lopez, author of False Memory (Salt), and one of Language Poetry's founding fathers, Bob Perelman, author of The Future of Memory (Roof Books), and Ten to One (Wesleyan).
«Vertical Horizons» immerses the viewer into a fictional reality, a possible utopia based on an uncertain memory of the past, where there is no «truth» or «false», but the need for reinvention.
(2012), curated by Dean Daderko, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX; Photography Sculpture Figure (2012), M + B, Los Angeles, CA; Art Book Club Presents: Cowboy Mouth (2011), St. Cecilia's Convent, Greenpoint, NY; Tomboy (2011), Columbia College Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL; This is a performance (2010), Artist Curated Projects (ACP), Los Angeles, CA; A Trip Down (False) Memory Lane (2009), The Lexington Club, San Francisco, CA; Shared Women (2007), curated by A.L. Steiner, Eve Fowler, and Emily Roysdon, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA; Ridykeulous (2006), Participant, Inc., New York, NY; and Neoqueer (2004), Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA.
Very disturbing and confusing images like The Pupils from 2001, The False Head, and Angel from 2013, cause unique memories, emotions and feelings, depending on the viewer's perspective and experience.
Supported by an Arts Award from the Wellcome Trust, The False Memory Archive at Carroll / Fletcher's new project space will be a series of works developed by Hopwood in collaboration with experimental psychologists, members of the public and a cast of fictional characters that reflect on the history and consequences of false memory reseFalse Memory Archive at Carroll / Fletcher's new project space will be a series of works developed by Hopwood in collaboration with experimental psychologists, members of the public and a cast of fictional characters that reflect on the history and consequences of false memory resMemory Archive at Carroll / Fletcher's new project space will be a series of works developed by Hopwood in collaboration with experimental psychologists, members of the public and a cast of fictional characters that reflect on the history and consequences of false memory resefalse memory resmemory research.
The acrimony that has fueled the debate on recovered memory has abated in most arenas, clearing the way for scientific research that has clearly established the reality of the phenomena of both false memory (FM) and accurate recovered memory.
LEADERSHIP COUNCIL, THE, research and articles on Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), Parental Alienation theory, False Memory Syndrome, the politics of child abuse, and other issues.
The nomination process of the U.S. Republican party is a living parable of one prophet after the other rising to the top of the heap, becoming the darling and hope of the electors, only to slip on his own past misdeeds or memory lapses and slide slowly back into the detritus of false idols.
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