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Flexible retrieval: When true inferences produce false memories.
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the associative inference test, thereby allowing us to assess whether (a) false memories increased for successful versus unsuccessful inferences, and (b) any such effects were specific to after compared with before participants received the inference test. In each of 4 experiments that used variants of this paradigm, participants were more susceptible to false memories for contextual details after successful than unsuccessful inferential retrieval, but only when contextual details were probed after the associative inference test. These results suggest that the retrieval-mediated recombination mechanism that underlies associative inference also contributes to source misattributions that result from combining elements of distinct episodes. (PsycINFO Database Record
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Metadata
- Authors
- Carpenter, A. C., & Schacter, D. L.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Published
- 2017-03
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 335-349
- ISSN
- 0278-7393 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1285
- PMC
- PMC5334182
- OpenAlex
- W2560751014
- Cited by
- 108
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 4
- FWCI
- 4.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH060941)
- National Institute on Aging (AG08441)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- false memory, associative inference, source misattribution
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Analysis of Variance, Association Learning, Attention, Female, Humans, Male, Mental Recall, Repression, Psychology, Time Factors, Young Adult
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