It's amazing how easy it is to place a false memory into someone's mind. An analogy I use is that the brain tries so hard to comprehend everything and be this amazing supercomputer, but when you ask it to retrieve something that it no longer remembers then in its frustration it creates something to give you. I found this video that I will attach that was talking about how the Loftus research works. The video is about a guy who creates this story of getting lost in the mall as a little kid when in fact this event never happened. I believe Loftus is on the right track by doing research on false memories because she is helping so that the wrong people don't get put in prison. We should be doing more research on false memories because I believe that there are a lot of cases that involve false memories.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQr_IJvYzbA&feature=related
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