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Major EU project led by UCC to investigate false memories
4 Sep 2025
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- UCC researcher Dr Gillian Murphy awarded €1.5m European Research Council Starting Grant to explore false memories.
- Researchers at UCC School of Applied Psychology will examine the possibility that false memories are reliable, adaptive and highly functional.
- The five-year research project will investigate the potential upsides of memory distortion – something typically viewed in a negative light - and explore the ethics of intentional alteration of memories.
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