Health
Covid Lockdowns Really Did Mess With Our Memories
- Isolation weakened recall of when recent events happened
- Participants misremembered timing of Brexit, Meghan Markle
A man crosses an empty highway road in Wuhan, China.
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The psychological toll of Covid lockdowns could lead some people to misremember the timing of recent events, according to a new study published by University of Aberdeen researchers.
The lapses were similar to distorted time perception observed among some prisoners, said the study, conducted in 2022 and published in open-access journal PLOS One on Wednesday.