False Memory

False memory refers to the recollection of an event, or the details of an event, that did not occur. The term may also refer to:

  • False memory syndrome
  • Source-monitoring error
  • Confabulation
  • False Memory (novel), by Dean Koontz

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or memory:

    “... that phrase of mischievous sophistry, “all men are born free and equal.” This false and futile axiom, which has done, is doing, and will do so much harm to this fine country ...”
    —Frances Trollope (1780–1863)

    “Unaffected by “the march of events,”
    He passed from men’s memory in l’an trentiesme
    De son eage; the case presents
    No adjunct to the Muses’ diadem.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)