The misinformation effect refers to the impairment in memory for the past that arises after
exposure to misleading information. The phenomenon has been investigated for at least 30 …

The hippocampus is known to be recruited during the recall of experiences from our distant
past, despite evidence that memory traces in this region vanish over time. Extant theories of …

Psychological scientists draw inferences about populations based on samples—of people,
situations, and stimuli—from those populations. Yet, few papers identify their target …

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Many people deploy photo media tools to document everyday events and rituals. For
generations we have stored memories in albums, diaries, and shoeboxes to retrieve at a …

People constantly talk about past experiences. Burgeoning psychological research has
examined the role of communication in remembering by placing rememberers in …

Memory researchers long have speculated that certain tactics may lead people to recall
crimes that never occurred, and thus could potentially lead to false confessions. This is the …

Focusing primarily on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), this article reviews
evidence regarding the roles of subregions of the medial temporal lobes, prefrontal cortex …

Taking photographs seems no longer primarily an act of memory intended to safeguard a
family's pictorial heritage, but is increasingly becoming a tool for an individual's identity …

Misremembering is a systematic and ordinary occurrence in our daily lives. Since it is
commonly assumed that the function of memory is to remember the past, misremembering is …