This article reviews research using the Deese/Roediger—McDermott (DRM) associative
memory illusion, whereby people falsely remember words that were not presented. This …

Can susceptibility to false memory and suggestion increase dramatically with age? The
authors review the theoretical and empirical literatures on this counterintuitive possibility …

Attentional control has been conceptualized as executive functioning by neuropsychologists
and as working memory capacity by experimental psychologists. We examined the …

Processing language requires the retrieval of concepts from memory in response to an
ongoing stream of information. This retrieval is facilitated if one can infer the gist of a …

Findings from research on false memory have major implications for a number of fields
central to human welfare, such as medicine and law. Although many important conclusions …

A key problem confronting theories of false memory is that false-memory phenomena are so
diverse: Some are characteristic of controlled laboratory tasks, others of everyday life; some …

People frequently continue to use inaccurate information in their reasoning even after a
credible retraction has been presented. This phenomenon is often referred to as the …

Drawing on a modern neurocognitive framework, this full-color textbook introduces the entire
field of cognition through an engaging narrative. Emphasizing the common neural …

The Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm lures people to produce false memories. Two
experiments examined whether induced positive or negative moods would influence this …

Affective experiences are commonly represented by either transient emotional reactions to
discrete events or longer term, sustained mood states that are characterized by a more …