> IMO the test subjects are not recalling false memories; they are generating what they believe to have occurred and this is different. From the paper: “To ru

> IMO the test subjects are not recalling false memories; they are generating what they believe to have occurred and this is different. From the paper: “To rule out that these errors reflect a perceptual error that has directly been encoded into STM, we test whether illusory responses increase over time: If the illusions are simply the result of misperceptions, their frequency of occurrence should remain the same over the time-course of STM—since in all cases initial perceptual inference has been completed. Therefore, if the number of reported illusions increases as the retention interval increases, this is best explained by memory-related processes taking place during the retention interval, so during STM storage itself, and not in the perceptual or encoding process.” So, it seems their memories are right more often just after seeing the stimulus than a short time later (100ms or 1s, if I scanned the paper correctly). My guess would be that the unconscious brain discards uninteresting data very quickly even if the conscious brain attends to that data.