ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Functional, Reliable and Adaptive Memory Errors
Decades of research have demonstrated that autobiographical memory is highly malleable: simple conversation can reshape memories or even plant entirely false memories of events that never happened. This malleability is a seemingly universal feature of the human condition. Despite this, false memories are generally regarded as – at best – a side effect of a flexible memory system. FRAME will explore a radically different possibility: that the construction of false memories is functional and adaptive in and of itself. Cognitive psychologists are preoccupied with memory accuracy, such that deviations from accuracy are referred to in our theoretical memory models as errors, distortions, and…
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