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Freaked Facebook users around the world this week, when rumors spread that some of their private messages now appeared in public. (We do not blame them, it is angry-you certainly do not want your father saw late-night messages to your hookup buddy.) Be But after reviewing the reports, the social network said there were no signs of previously private content published, and many people back down to their demands.

What happened? Facebook networks were intimate at the time, so some people were wrong remember how loose they were even with the exchange of personal data. In other words, human memories were in a very different context than when they were recalled, first a new study in the Journal of Neuroscience may explain why saved. "'.

During the three days of experiments, researchers at Northwestern University, asked people to learn the locations of the objects on a computer screen, then you remember the next day, and a third day.

All the wrong people, the objects placed on the second day and the third day while 70 percent of the internships were closer on day two internships, not the starting point. The wild part? The people gave off neural signals that a new memory card is in the specified brain also suggested if it was wrong.

If you recall a memory card, there is a possibility that your brain creates a different memory of that call, says Donna J. Bridge, Ph.D., the study's lead author and a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine. If the details are confusing (as in something reminiscent in a different environment, mood or time), a false memory could become part of this original memor