Sentences with phrase «more false memories»

The group produced significantly more false memories on the same word - retrieval test, just as the women with recovered memories of sexual abuse had.

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Even more interesting is that these false memories contribute to attitudes about the relative merits of the product, or what they call «the false experience effect.»

Those who «recalled» more lures were assumed to be more prone to false memories, and were found to have higher - quality neural connections, called axons, in the superior longitudinal fascicle, known to be associated with gist - based memory (Journal of Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1523 / jneurosci.5270 - 08.2009).

Many researchers have created false memories in normal individuals; what is more, many of these subjects are certain that the memories are real.

McNally's research suggests that all memories — even false ones — are more than just accessories of experience.

McNally thinks that one reason abductees, who by all other measures are sane and healthy individuals, are more vulnerable to false memories is that «they score higher on measures of fantasy and absorption, which is the ability, for instance, to get lost in daydreams or be utterly entranced by a sunset.

Dr Greene said: «Increasing scientific and public understanding of the causes of false memory is an important goal, particularly in light of some of the more negative consequences associated with the phenomenon, including faulty eyewitness accounts and the controversies surrounding false memories of traumatic childhood events.

People who were instructed to create images of the list words in their head were able to recall more words than people who didn't create images, and they didn't recall false memories as often.

«Our study suggests more detailed imagery instructions are necessary to help filter out false memories during a recognition test, where false memories are typically very high,» Oliver said.

McNally thinks that one reason abductees, who are on all other measures sane and healthy individuals, are more vulnerable to false memories is a trait called absorption: «They score higher on measures of fantasy and absorption, which is the ability, for instance, to get lost in daydreams or be utterly entranced by a sunset.

fMRI results revealed that left Inferior Frontal Gyrus (IFG), specifically pars triangularis, was significantly more activated in bilinguals than monolinguals for both, true and false memories.

But more interestingly, the interviews with Lavona (Janney) and Harding (Robbie) slowly and slyly expose the false memories that viewers might have about the incident.

A sample of research exploring eye movements and false memory, inflexibility in obsessive - compulsive disorder, and cognitive control in depression... More