Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
false recognition, memory performance, long-term memory system
College
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department
Psychology
Abstract
Our long-term memory system has the impressive ability to form unique representations of events and later retrieve those distinct events with minimal interference from similar events. For example, you may park in the same parking lot everyday, but in a different spot each time. Most days, you can remember specifically where you are parked even though each encounter is very similar and thus might interfere with all the others. Computational models of brain functioning propose that this ability depends on the complementary processes of pattern separation and pattern completion. Pattern separation is the process whereby overlapping representations (of, for example, two similar events or stimuli) are made as dissimilar as possible. Pattern completion, on the other hand, is the process whereby previously encoded representations are retrieved given a degraded or noisy cue.
Recommended Citation
Ellgen, Amanda and Kirwan, C. Brock
(2017)
"What Happens When Remember the Wrong Thing: The Effects of False Recognition on Memory Performance,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2017:
Iss.
1, Article 88.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2017/iss1/88