No evidence for a role of reconsolidation in updating of paired associates

Allanson, Fiona; Ecker, Ullrich K. H.

doi:10.1080/20445911.2017.1360307

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“…This time dependency of our effects is consistent with the synaptic mechanisms of reconsolidation. Furthermore, our findings can explain failed replications in the reconsolidation literature that arise from designs with insufficient delays between encoding, reactivation, and test (Allanson and Ecker 2017). Importantly, however, TCM can account for the nonzero level of intrusions and errors observed in the Study 1 Control group.…”

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Surprise and destabilize: prediction error influences episodic memory reconsolidation

2018

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Through the process of "reconsolidation," reminders can temporarily destabilize memories and render them vulnerable to change. Recent rodent research has proposed that prediction error, or the element of surprise, is a key component of this process; yet, this hypothesis has never before been extended to complex episodic memories in humans. In our novel paradigm, we used naturalistic stimuli to demonstrate that prediction error enables adaptive updating of episodic memories. In Study 1, participants ( = 48) viewed 18 videos, each depicting an action-outcome event. The next day, we reactivated these memories by presenting the videos again. We found that incomplete reminders, which interrupted videos before the outcome, made memories vulnerable to subsequent interference from a new set of videos, producing false memories. In Study 2 ( = 408), an independent sample rated qualities of the stimuli. We found that videos that were more surprising when interrupted produced more false memories. Last, in Study 3 ( = 24), we tested competing predictions of reconsolidation theory and the Temporal Context Model, an alternative account of source confusion. Consistent with the mechanistic time-course of reconsolidation, our effects were crucially time-dependent. Overall, we synthesize prior animal and human research to present compelling evidence that prediction error destabilizes episodic memories and drives dynamic updating in the face of new information.

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Surprise and destabilize: prediction error influences episodic memory reconsolidation

2018

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“…Prior research has found that repeating misinformation directly prior to or within a correction can render the correction more effective (Ecker et al, 2017; Kowalski & Taylor, 2017; Wahlheim et al, 2020). However, it should be noted that this does not require the assumption of reconsolidation (also see Allanson & Ecker, 2017; Howe et al, 2020). For example, an alternative model suggests that co-activation of a misconception and related corrective information facilitates conflict detection and integration of the corrective information into the relevant mental model, thus boosting knowledge revision (Kendeou & O’Brien, 2014).…”

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Misinformation and the sins of memory: False-belief formation and limits on belief revision.

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Ecker³

2022

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

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“…5We note, however, that in the broader memory-updating literature, updating difficulties are often demonstrated despite explicit instructions to keep mental representations up-to-date; e.g., Allanson & Ecker, 2017). …”

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“…We note, however, that in the broader memory-updating literature, updating difficulties are often demonstrated despite explicit instructions to keep mental representations up-to-date; e.g.,Allanson & Ecker, 2017).This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.Content may be shared at no cost, but any requests to reuse this content in part or whole must go through the American Psychological Association.…”

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Do false allegations persist? Retracted misinformation does not continue to influence explicit person impressions.

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Rodricks

2020

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

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Corrected misinformation often continues to influence reasoning; this is known as the continued-influence effect (CIE). It is unclear whether this effect also occurs in impression formation, with some arguing that person impressions are readily updated. The present study tested if a retracted allegation influences person impressions. Participants received examples of behaviors that a fictitious person had allegedly engaged in. The set did or did not include a domestic-violence behavior, which subsequently was or was not retracted. Discredited misinformation was found to influence neither trait ratings of the person nor behavior predictions. This held even when the person's name implied a cultural background stereotypically associated with domestic violence. This provides evidence that under some circumstances, people can fully discount discredited misinformation when building person impressions. However, there was some tentative evidence that corrected misinformation did influence a more indirect measure, namely ratings of the fictitious person's face.

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No evidence for a role of reconsolidation in updating of paired associates

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

Surprise and destabilize: prediction error influences episodic memory reconsolidation

Surprise and destabilize: prediction error influences episodic memory reconsolidation

Misinformation and the sins of memory: False-belief formation and limits on belief revision.

Do false allegations persist? Retracted misinformation does not continue to influence explicit person impressions.

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