page_title: False memory
hierarchical_section_title: False memory
caption_attribution_description: English: "Psychiater Europas! Wahret Eure heiligsten Diagnosen!" ("Psychiatrists of Europe! Protect your sanctified diagnoses!") Cartoon by Emil Kraepelin, "Bierzeitung", Heidelberg 1896
context_page_description: Both perception and remembering are processes which involve the brain. For this reason, errors do sometimes occur. Errors in perception are commonly called illusions. Emil Kraepelin used the term "Erinnerungsverfälschung" to speak about false memories.
  Perceptions need stimuli to be created. A perception without a stimulus is called hallucination. Much like the difference between illusion and hallucination, Kraepelin wanted to distinguish between a false memory and memories of something that did not really happen, which he called "Erinnerkungsfälschung". Unfortunately, both German terms translate to the same English term.
  A false memory is a condition where a person remembers something that did not occur or where the memory does not closely match the occurrence.
context_section_description: Both perception ("experiencing") and remembering are processes which involve the brain. For this reason, errors do sometimes occur. Errors in perception are commonly called illusions. Emil Kraepelin used the term "Erinnerungsverfälschung" (memory falsification) to speak about false memories.
  Perceptions need stimuli to be created. A perception without a stimulus is called hallucination. Much like the difference between illusion and hallucination, Kraepelin wanted to distinguish between a false memory and memories of something that did not really happen, which he called "Erinnerkungsfälschung". Unfortunately, both German terms translate to the same English term.
  A false memory is a condition where a person remembers something that did not occur or where the memory does not closely match the occurrence.
caption: Psychiatrists of Europe! Protect your sanctified diagnoses!". Cartoon by Emil Kraepelin, "Bierzeitung", Heidelberg 1896
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