title: Animal cognition: bumble bees suffer 'false memories'.
abstract: The existence of 'false memories', where individuals remember events that they have never actually experienced, is well established in humans. Now a new study reports that insects similarly form illusory memories through merging of memory traces.
authors.affiliation: Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia. Electronic address: j.reinhard@uq.edu.au.
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Reinhard
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D023421:Models, Animal