"In humans, false memory phenomena are very well established, and in some cases it can have had serious legal consequences," said study researcher Susumu Tonegawa, a neuroscientist at MIT in Cambridge, Mass.
This non-human false positive hit comes from the alignment of sequences with long stretches of "TG".
He was charged today with human trafficking, false imprisonment and holding people for ransom.
The hideous abuses of human rights – false imprisonment, state-sponsored torture, organised paedophile rings – often grab the headlines.
(Christ is contingency? An absurd, even callous thing for me to have said to her at that moment. It was true, but the time and the context made it, in any ordinary human sense, false).
If not caught by vigilant humans, such false alerts can start an accidental exchange of nuclear missiles.
Believing invasives are just another ethical challenge we can meet with our mouths gives humans a false sense of our own agency.
Tonegawa suggests that these results could help explain some of the cases in which humans form false memories.
Mayford, whose work also focuses on learning and memory manipulation in mice, says it's theoretically possible that humans form false memories in a similar way.
His telescope seemed to reveal that unaided human vision gives false, or at least seriously incomplete, information about the nature of celestial bodies.
The military has compiled a list of 24 crimes for which the detainees may be prosecuted, including murder, the taking of hostages, degrading treatment of prisoners, use of human shields and false use of a white flag to wage war.
