The cognitive neuroscience of true and false memories.

Marcia K Johnson, Carol L Raye, Karen J Mitchell, Elizabeth Ankudowich

Journal: Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation 2012;58():15-52

PMID: 22303763

Abstract

Of central relevance to the recovered/false memory debate is understanding the factors that cause us to believe that a mental experience is a memory of an actual past experience. According to the source monitoring framework (SMF), memories are attributions that we make about our mental experiences based on their subjective qualities, our prior knowledge and beliefs, our motives and goals, and the social context. From this perspective, we discuss cognitive behavioral studies using both objective (e.g., recognition, source memory) and subjective (e.g., ratings of memory characteristics) measures that provide much information about the encoding, revival and monitoring processes that yield both true and false memories. The chapter also considers how neuroimaging findings, especially from functional magnetic resonance imaging studies, are contributing to our understanding of the relation between memory and reality.

Address: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. [email protected]

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1195-6_2

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MeSH Terms: Adult, Attention, Brain, Brain Mapping, Child, Child Abuse, Sexual, Cues, Dominance, Cerebral, Emotions, Humans, Life Change Events, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Memory, Episodic, Nerve Net, Repression, Psychology, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Suggestion