Attentional cueing induces false memory |
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| Institution: | 1. Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science, Biomedical Research Center, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA;2. Biomedical Engineering Faculty, Technion-IIT, Haifa, Israel;3. Translational Gerontology Branch, Biomedical Research Center, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA;4. Mathematics and Statistics Department, Loyola University, Baltimore, MD, USA;1. Department of Neurology, Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Geffen School of Medicine, and Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, USA;2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA;3. Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA;4. Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, USA |
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| Abstract: | The fluency of stimulus processing significantly contributes to recognition memory judgments. We investigated the effect of processing fluency induced by attentional cueing on recognition judgments. Participants performed a Remember/Know recognition test, while their spatial attention was manipulated in the test session. Stimulus location was either predicted (congruent condition) or unpredicted (incongruent condition) using an arrow cue. The results revealed that familiarity-based false recognition increased in the incongruent condition wherein the participants may have attributed part of the perceived disfluency to the attentional cue, and they may have overestimated the fluency for the stimulus, leading to increased false recognition. However, in the congruent condition, the participants may have attributed some parts of the perceived fluency to the attentional cue and underestimated the fluency for the stimulus, leading to decreased false recognition. In sum, stimulus-irrelevant attentional cueing induces unintentional processing about the source of fluency and biases recognition memory. |
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| Keywords: | Recognition memory Memory illusion Processing fluency Attentional cueing |
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