Children’s gist-based false memory in working memory tasks.
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- Rousselle, Manon CNRS, LPC, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
- Abadie, Marlène CNRS, LPC, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
- Blaye, Agnès CNRS, LPC, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
- Camos, Valérie ORCID Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- 2023
Published in:
- Developmental Psychology. - American Psychological Association (APA). - 2023, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 272-284
English
False memories are well established episodic memory phenomena. Recent research in young adults has
shown that semantically related associates can be falsely remembered as studied items in working mem-
ory (WM) tasks for lists of only a few items when a short 4-second interval was given between study and
test. The present study reported two experiments yielding similar effects in 4- (n = 32 and 33, 18 and 14
females, respectively) and 8-year-old children (n = 33 and 34, respectively, 19 females in both). Short
lists of semantically related items speci cally tailored for young children were retained over a brief inter-
val. Whether or not the interval was lled with a concurrent task that impeded or not WM maintenance,
younger children were as prone to falsely recognize related distractors as their older counterparts in an im-
mediate recognition test, and also in a delayed test. In addition, using the conjoint recognition model of
the fuzzy-trace theory, we demonstrated that the retrieval of gist traces of the list themes was responsible
for the occurrence of short-term false memories in 4- and 8-year-old children. Gist memory also under-
pinned the occurrence of false recognition in the delayed test. These ndings suggest that young children
are as likely to make gist-based false memories as older children in working memory tasks.
shown that semantically related associates can be falsely remembered as studied items in working mem-
ory (WM) tasks for lists of only a few items when a short 4-second interval was given between study and
test. The present study reported two experiments yielding similar effects in 4- (n = 32 and 33, 18 and 14
females, respectively) and 8-year-old children (n = 33 and 34, respectively, 19 females in both). Short
lists of semantically related items speci cally tailored for young children were retained over a brief inter-
val. Whether or not the interval was lled with a concurrent task that impeded or not WM maintenance,
younger children were as prone to falsely recognize related distractors as their older counterparts in an im-
mediate recognition test, and also in a delayed test. In addition, using the conjoint recognition model of
the fuzzy-trace theory, we demonstrated that the retrieval of gist traces of the list themes was responsible
for the occurrence of short-term false memories in 4- and 8-year-old children. Gist memory also under-
pinned the occurrence of false recognition in the delayed test. These ndings suggest that young children
are as likely to make gist-based false memories as older children in working memory tasks.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département de Psychologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Psychology
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- green
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- DOI 10.1037/dev0001476
- ISSN 1939-0599
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/335046
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