The results were clear: the new environment inhibited recognition. - Elizabeth Loftus

To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.

Memory works like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.

I collaborated on a brain imaging study in 2010, and the overwhelming conclusion we reached is that the neural patterns were very similar for true and false memories. We are a long way away from being able to look at somebody's brain activity and reliably classify an authentic memory versus one that arose through some other process.