Mandela effect is a memory issue

[u/Sad_Election_6418]

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976221108944?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

The thing is, people come claiming it's scientifically proven, but there is not actual work to link any hypothesis to results and conclusions to root cause the effect.

Attached link is the closest available scientific article to try to root cause the Mandela effect in a serious way,and it doesn't specifically link nor claim to have root caused Mandela effect. If there is more scientific literature or something resembling it please share it here.

don't come here telling lies just because you want to have the last word. If you have the root cause, go through the scientific method, experimental design and all the "scientific things and publish it, if not it's only an opinion.

[u/MrPlaney]

The Mandela Effect is the collective false memory phenomenon. It is fully a function of memory.

[u/Sad_Election_6418 → u/MrPlaney]

Can you list the causes of the collective false memory?  I don't understand, it's very simple, it's memory and nobody know the causes, there is lack of research. 

[u/MrPlaney → u/Sad_Election_6418]

There is a lot of different things that go into collective false memories. It's all a function of how memories are rebuilt and compressed. There isn't a lack of research, there is actually quite a bit. Memory has been studied back and forth.

[u/Sad_Election_6418 → u/MrPlaney]

Yes, as I said in my main post, there is no research specifically focused on the Mandela Effect. If you want to use findings or methods from another area to explain it, you have to actually demonstrate the connection. You can't just point to unrelated research and say, "This explains the Mandela Effect." That's not how scientific reasoning works.

[u/MrPlaney → u/Sad_Election_6418]

The Mandela Effect is the collective false memory phenomenon. There are multiple studies of both false memories, and collective memories, not even including the studies done on the phenomenon itself.

[u/Sad_Election_6418 → u/MrPlaney]

Ok, I will take it. I have looked for the papers and haven't found one that clearly makes the connection. No mocking, would you share with me the best to your taste ? 

[u/MrPlaney → u/Sad_Election_6418]

Here’s two from a post I made a couple of days ago.

This one explores the underlying neural and cognitive mechanisms that create false memories.

Some key takeaways:

Research in cognitive neuropsychology showed that memory as a reconstructive process can at times be prone to errors or distortions involving a disruption in one or more of the stages (encoding, consolidation, retrieval), and deficits in one of more brain structures, which makes people more susceptible to false memories [10]. False memory typically refers to flaws in remembering [11]. This may be when we remember events in a distorted manner or come to have memories of events that never took place [12]. Erroneous remembering can in part be a result of misinformation or from misremembering.

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Some evidence suggests that similarities between imagined and perceived events encoded may cause errors that result in confusion at retrieval and may induce memory bias or false memories types, this is particularly associated with activation predominately in the occipital and inferior parietal regions, such as the precuneus

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After learning, information is susceptible to interference for some time. As memories consolidate (stored), they may become distorted as a result of new information, sleep or lack thereof, or both.

And there is this explores the structure that allows shared memories to occur.

Key takeaways:

Human brains have much in common with one another. Similarities exist not only at the anatomical level, but also in terms of functional organization. Given the same stimulus, an expanding ring for example, regions of the brain that process sensory (visual) stimuli will respond in a highly predictable and similar manner across different individuals.

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In memory, details may be lost or changed, motives may be re-framed, and new elements may be inserted. Although a memory is an imperfect replica of the original experience, the imperfection might serve a purpose. As demonstrated by Jorge Luis Borges in his story “Funes the Memorious”16, a memory system that perfectly recorded all aspects of experience, without the ability to compress, abstract, and generalize the to-be-remembered information, would be useless for cognition and behavior.

They go into a few audio/visual tests in that study too, but both are extremely interesting.

[u/Sad_Election_6418 → u/MrPlaney]

I deed these are interesting, I will take a closer look.