False Memory

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False memories are distorted recollections of events or recollections of events that did not occur. In the context of psychology, this term is often used as a critical description of recovered autobiographic memory, though the concept is not recognized in a diagnostic context.

Dissociation and Memory
There are several models on how autobiographic memory is stored and processed in the brain, and an ongoing debate on how memory is stored, repressed, recovered, and similar. Fully processed memory is not rigid and details may change over time.

Traumatic memory, however, is theorised to be distinct from non-traumatic memory in that it is not processed but stored dissociatively, making the mechanisms and experience of recall different from that of processed memory, as well as not being affected by the same malleability.