Neuroscientists can measure changes in the brain associated with different types of memory. Recent experiments on rodents have shown that memories can be manipulated.
In one experiment, researchers implanted a false fear memory in a mouse brain, causing it to elicit a fear response to a stimulus to which it was not actually exposed. In a different experiment, researchers electrically stimulated place cells in a mouse hippocampus as well as cells in the reward system during sleep, which induced learned behavior where mice linked a specific location to a reward.
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Walter Glannon is a professor of philosophy at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Bioethics and the Brain and Brain, Body and Mind: Neuroethics with a Human Face, and the editor of Free Will and the Brain: Neuroscientific, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives.
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