http://www.examiner.com/cognitive-science-in-national/how-fake-pictures-can-create-false-memories
"People know that photographs can be faked and yet they still find photographic information to be believable." - Gunjan Singh, Source: Examiner.com "How Fake Pictures Can Create False Memories"
I think it's interesting how we create technology that performs similarly to how the human body and mind function. Photographs can create and preserve memories, which can indeed be altered just as much as our own brains reconfigure our experiences and permit us to imagine different scenarios that never actually occurred at all. This article puts into question how much truth a photograph can really convey in a digital age where so much modification is now possible.
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