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“What have you been working on today?” she asked. “Oh it’s a piece about a type of ‘cryptomnesia’, a technical term from psychology.” She frowned. I leaned forward and launched into a mansplainer.

We know that people make up false memories if prompted. But since our brain never stops being a jerk, we can also convert real memories into things we believe we imagined. Cryptomnesia can strike via ...