Memory is prone to distortions that can have serious consequences in everyday life. Here
we integrate emerging evidence that several types of memory distortions–imagination …

As we age we become increasingly susceptible to memory distortions and inaccuracies.
Over the past decade numerous neuroimaging studies have attempted to illuminate the …

Memory serves critical functions in everyday life, but it is also vulnerable to error and illusion.
Two decades ago, I proposed that memory errors could be classified into seven basic …

The Deese, Roediger and McDermott (DRM) task is a false memory paradigm in which
subjects are presented with lists of semantically related words (eg, nurse, hospital, etc.) at …

When our experience violates our predictions, it is adaptive to upregulate encoding of novel
information, while down-weighting retrieval of erroneous memory predictions to promote an …

On the face of it, memory, imagination, and prediction seem to be distinct cognitive functions.
However, metacognitive, cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging evidence is …

Patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) not only are suffering from amnesia but also are
prone to memory distortions, such as experiencing detailed and vivid recollections of …

Although memory processes and systems usually operate reliably, they are sometimes
prone to distortions and illusions. Here we review evidence indicating that cognitive aging is …

There has been unprecedented interest in recent years in questions pertaining to accuracy
and distortion in memory. This interest, catalyzed in part by real-life problems, marks a …

Discrepancies between expectations and outcomes, or prediction errors, are central to trial-
and-error learning based on reward and punishment, and their neurobiological basis is well …