Publication year
2005Source
Memory, 13, 7, (2005), pp. 749-758ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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Journal title
Memory
Volume
vol. 13
Issue
iss. 7
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p. 749
Page end
p. 758
Subject
Action, intention, and motor controlAbstract
Directed forgetting may reduce the DRM false memory illusion by interfering with meaning processing. Participants were presented with a list composed of six 10-word semantically associated sub-lists, and they were either (a) asked to remember all list items or (b) asked to remember all associates from sub-lists and to forget all associates from other sub-lists. All participants were requested to recall and recognise list items. Although directed forgetting effects have been previously reported only for true responses in the DRM paradigm with the list method, we also found directed forgetting for false responses with the item method. Such forgetting instructions reduced both verbatim and meaning processing, decreasing both the intrusion and the false alarm rate. These results are consistent with two-process explanations of DRM false memories, such as fuzzy-trace theory, and add to our understanding of false memory editing.
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