Are Blurry Blobs Part of the Mandela Effect?

For those interested in the Mandela Effect and the myriad explanations for different memories, a (rather geeky) article at Quanta Magazine may be relevant: How the Brain Distinguishes Memories from Perceptions.

From that article:

“…This suggests that when the memory of the image was stored, only the highest-level representation of it was kept. When the memory was experienced again, all the areas of the visual cortex were activated — but their activity was based on the less precise version as an...