MEMORIES ARE OUR OWN TRUTHS… TRUTHS THATCAN LIE

False memories ignite people’s imaginations, particularly when they crop up in high-profile court cases. Such as in 2021, when socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was accused – and convicted – of child sex trafficking.

During the trial, the defence called the most eminent researcher in the field of false memory, Prof Elizabeth Loftus of the University of California Irvine, to the stand. There, she said something that memory researchers say on a regular basis: “[Memory] doesn’t work