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Cuttlefish Can Create False Memories, Just Like Humans

Researchers have discovered that cuttlefish can form false memories, similar to humans. By exposing cuttlefish to overlapping features of different events, they induced the creatures to falsely remember seeing shrimp where there were none. This finding suggests that cuttlefish reconstruct memories from separate details, optimizing memory storage. Individual cuttlefish showed varying susceptibility to forming false memories, indicating differences in memory processing. ….[READ]

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