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The appearance in consciousness of memory images which are not recognized as such but which appear as original creations.

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  • One trick is called cryptomnesia, or hidden memory.3 A delirious person may suddenly speak in a strange language he apparently never learned.
  • What is called cryptomnesia in one context is known as social learning theory in another.
  • And if it is real, is unconscious copying (or "cryptomnesia" to those who study the phenomenon) preventable?
  • Nevertheless, the phenomenon of "cryptomnesia", of mistakenly treating something one has heard as a memory of one's own experience, is a documented psychological phenomenon.
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