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The adaptive nature of false memories is revealed by gist-based distortion of true memories

2018-08-16

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<p>Human memory systems are subject to many imperfections, including memory distortions and the creation of false memories. Here, we demonstrate a case where memory distortion is adaptive, increasing the overall accuracy of memories. Participants viewed multiple real-world objects from a given category (10 airplanes, 10 backpacks…), and later recalled the color of each object. Participants were generally accurate,...

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Literature Corpus work: 981d4322-ad8e-52c4-9e69-a20db81738ff
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/zeg95

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