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Imagine This
More empirical support that language can undermine your brain:
Many of the visual images that the subjects were asked to imagine were later misremembered as actually having been seen.[...]
"In the case of the false remembering emphasized here, the false memories were created when vivid visual imagery was engaged and a mental image was produced," Paller said. "These mental images left a trace in the brain that was later mistaken for the trace that would have been produced had that object actually been seen."
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