Creating memories of transcription: Fig. 1.

Creating memories of transcription.

Two genetically identical cells grown under the same conditions can exhibit stochastic fluctuations in gene expression. Such cell-tocell variation in expression of key genes is hypothesized to help drive developmental fate decisions and cell specialization during differentiation. However, to date, most analyses dissecting steps involved in the activation of cell cycle or developmentally regulat...

Creating false memories.

In 1986 Nadean Cool, a nurse's aide in Wisconsin sought therapy from a psychiatrist to help her cope with her reaction to a traumatic event experienced by her daughter. During therapy, the psychiatrist used hypnosis and other suggestive techniques to dig out buried memories of abuse that Cool herself had allegedly experienced. In the process Cool became convinced that she had repressed memories...

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Creating bizarre false memories through imagination.

The present study explored memory for familiar or usual actions (e.g., flip the coin) and bizarre or unusual actions (e.g., sit on the dice). In Session 1, action statements were presented to 210 participants, who had to either perform or imagine those actions. In Session 2, 24 h later, participants imagined performing various actions, some presented in the first session and others totally new....

Creating false memories for visual scenes.

Creating false memories has become an important tool to investigate the processes underlying true memories. In the course of investigating the constructive and/or reconstructive processes underlying the formation of false memories, it has become clear that paradigms are needed that can create false memories reliably in a variety of laboratory settings. In particular, neuroimaging techniques pre...