false memory

That is, once someone has a memory, can we tell whether it is a true memory or a false memory?

At some point he mumbled a short editorial about how he had a new appreciation for those suffering false memory syndrome.

The new science makes clear that false memory is not created out of dishonesty.

As a convicted criminal, and he will be, we'll provide him with a false memory that will prevent his prying into the past.

And why had a false memory of that crime been superimposed on his mind just beneath the conscious level?