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memory illusion

memory illusion Memory illusion is a distortion of memory in which a person has a false recollection.

Memory illusion is a distortion of memory in which a person has a false recollection. It can involve misplacing an event in time, adding imagined details to a real event, or seeming to remember something that was not actually experienced.

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Drafting source: Baldwin Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901. 1901 New York Macmillan original; archive index checked 2026-10-18. “Memory (defects of)” (Memory (defects of)).
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