At the University of Amsterdam, they found that within moments of certain events, distorted memories of them arise in the human mind. It is reported by Gismeteo.
It is reported that scientists conducted a series of experiments with 534 volunteers. The tests concerned the memorization of individual sets of Latin letters. Each participant had to remember not only the letter itself, but also its display (in normal or mirror form). Before answering the test question, the volunteer also saw another set of irrelevant characters, after which he was called upon to evaluate whether he gave the correct answer.
Errors were recorded in about 20% of the approaches, but this figure increased by another 10% if the questions were asked three seconds after the symbols were shown. At least 37% of respondents were sure that they saw a normally displayed sign, when in reality it was mirrored.
Thus, it has been proven that short-term memory is often determined by human expectations, and it can hardly be considered as reliably storing the received visual information.
Source: Rosbalt
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