A cognitive neuropsychological approach to false memory: Korsakoff patients and the DRM paradigm

Abstract

Although false memories have been studied extensively within the field of cognitive psychology, the role of cognitive neuropsychology in false memory research has been rather limited. Therefore, the present article aims at giving an integrated overview of both the neuropsychological study of amnesia and research on false memories. After considering some of the most important predecessors in the study of memory distortions/illusions, a listlearning paradigm designed to elicit and investigate false memories is described (i.e., the DRM paradigm), and theoretical accounts for the phenomenon are provided. Subsequently, the neuropsychological framework is presented, with an emphasis on Korsakoff patients' performance in the earlier described paradigm. Several experimental manipulations, as well as the results, are discussed and interpreted in the light of both encoding and retrieval factors. (Netherlands Journal of Psychology,

Gender Effect on Neural Correlates of Autobiographical False Memories for Brand Images

“…In the last few decades, researchers have inclined towards using more advanced tools to study consumers' purchasing behavior and their memory formation while receiving advertisements for different brand products (Lucchiari & Pravettoni, 2012;Camarrone & Van Hulle, 2019). For instance, in the pseudo-memory research, it was shown that the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus reported in previous studies are involved in false memory formation (Schacter, 1996;Van Damme & d'Ydewalle, 2009). It has been reported that activations of some brain areas including frontal-parietal parts, left hippocampus, and bilateral middle temporal gyrus might be different for true and false memories (Dennis et al, 2008).…”