Research suggests people can generate false memories within the blink of an eye.
In a series of four experiments led by the University of Amsterdam, researchers showed 534 people letters of the Western alphabet in actual and mirrored orientations.
Half a second after viewing the first slide, almost 20 percent of people had formed an illusory memory of the target letter; this increased to 30 percent after 3 seconds. When letters appeared mirrored , people were more likely to remember the pseudo-letter as a real letter, even after only milliseconds had passed.
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