Variations in processing resources and resistance to false memories in younger and older adults

[en] The influence of available processing resources on the resistance to false memories (FMs) for lists of semantically related items associated with a non-presented critical lure was examined in younger and older adults. Reducing the available resources at encoding in younger adults (Experiments 1 and 2) led to a performance similar to that of older adults (i.e., higher rates of FMs in addition to reduced rates of correct recall). However, increasing the available resources (Experiments 2 and 3) led to improvements in the rates of correct recall in both age groups and decreased the probability of FMs in younger adults, although warnings had to be added in older adults to obtain similar effects on FMs. Parallel influences on a post-recall test asking participants to report items that they had thought of but did not recall were also found. The influence of available cognitive resources for memory accuracy is also discussed with respect to activation-monitoring (e.g., McDermott

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Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives et Comportementales - ULiège

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Theoretical & cognitive psychology

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Dehon, Hedwige ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie cognitive

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English

Title :

Variations in processing resources and resistance to false memories in younger and older adults

Publication date :

August 2006

Journal title :

Memory

ISSN :

0965-8211

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1464-0686

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Psychology Press, Hove, United Kingdom

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Pages :

692-711

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