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Cognitive control constrains memory attributions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2020

Colleen M. Kelley  and
Larry L. Jacoby Open the ORCID record for Larry L. Jacoby [Opens in a new window]
Colleen M. Kelley
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL32306Kelley@psy.fsu.edu
Larry L. Jacoby
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO63130. lljacoby@wustl.edu
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Abstract

Cognitive control constrains retrieval processing and so restricts what comes to mind as input to the attribution system. We review evidence that older adults, patients with Alzheimer's disease, and people with traumatic brain injury exert less cognitive control during retrieval, and so are susceptible to memory misattributions in the form of dramatic levels of false remembering.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e291
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