The seven sins of memory: An update

DL Schacter - Memory, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Memory sins in applied settings: What kind of progress?

DL Schacter - Journal of Applied Research in Memory and …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Over 2 decades ago, I proposed that memory errors could be classified into seven basic
categories or sins (Schacter, 1999, 2001), comprising three sins of omission (transience …

[HTML][HTML] Reinstatement of item-specific contextual details during retrieval supports recombination-related false memories

AC Carpenter, PP Thakral, AR Preston, DL Schacter - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Flexible retrieval mechanisms that allow us to infer relationships across events may also
lead to memory errors or distortion when details of one event are misattributed to the related …

The role of neuronal excitability, allocation to an engram and memory linking in the behavioral generation of a false memory in mice

JMH Lau, AJ Rashid, AD Jacob, PW Frankland… - Neurobiology of learning …, 2020 - Elsevier
Memory is a constructive, not reproductive, process that is prone to errors. Errors in memory,
though, may originate from normally adaptive memory processes. At the extreme of memory …

Linking creativity and false memory: Common consequences of a flexible memory system

PP Thakral, AL Devitt, NM Brashier, DL Schacter - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Episodic retrieval plays a functional-adaptive role in supporting divergent thinking, the ability
to creatively combine different pieces of information. However, the same constructive …

[HTML][HTML] Examining the effects of pleasantness ratings on correct and false recognition in the DRM paradigm: accuracy, recollection and familiarity estimates

A Alvarez-Martinez, MJ Sampedro-Vizcaya… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Distinctive encoding usually increases correct recognition while also producing a reduction
in false recognition. In the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) illusion this phenomenon …