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'False' memories promoted by the brain

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Have you ever had a "false memory?" That is, remembering something that never actually happened to you?

That's common (and sometimes known as deja vu), and a new study out of Duke University concludes that the area of the brain responsible for memory processing is also used to rule out false memories from the brain.

Tests on study subjects used both real memories and false memories (and fMRI scanning) to try and find out why human memory is not 100 percent correct at recalling true and false events.

Just goes to show -- unlike computers where there is no gray area, the human brain is quite a bit more artistically complex. We're just wired very differently, aren't we?

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