Can False Memories Prime Problem Solutions for Healthy Older Adults and Those With Alzheimer's Disease?
Can False Memories Prime Problem Solutions for Healthy Older Adults and Those With Alzheimer's Disease?
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错误记忆能否为健康的老年人和阿尔茨海默病患者提供问题解决方案？
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10.1093/geronb/gby064
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2020
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Akhtar S
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Akhtar S
最近的研究表明，错误的记忆可以对儿童和年轻人的人类认知产生积极的影响。本实验探讨了健康老年人和阿尔茨海默病（AD）患者在解决复合远距离联想任务（CRAT）问题时，错误记忆是否能产生类似的正效应。其中一半是在Deese/Roediger-McDermott（DRM）列表之前提出的，这些列表的关键诱饵（CL）也是这些问题的解决方案。ResultsThe结果表明，无论认知能力，当CL被错误地认识到，CRAT的问题得到解决更频繁，更可靠的速度比没有引发的DRM列表的问题。当CL没有错误地认识到，CRAT问题的解决率和时间没有什么不同，当没有DRM priming.DiscussionThese研究结果是一致的预测从理论的联想激活和展示的重要性，在整个生命周期的记忆中的自动扩散激活过程。
ObjectiveRecent research has shown that false memories can have a positive consequence on human cognition in both children and young adults. The present experiment investigated whether false memories could have similar positive effects by priming solutions to insight-based problems in healthy older adults and people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD).MethodParticipants were asked to solve compound remote associate task (CRAT) problems, half of which had been preceded by the presentation of Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) lists whose critical lures (CL) were also the solutions to those problems.ResultsThe results showed that regardless of cognitive ability, when the CL was falsely recognized, CRAT problems were solved more often and reliably faster than problems that were not primed by a DRM list. When the CL was not falsely recognized, CRAT problem solution rates and times were no different from when there was no DRM priming.DiscussionThese findings are consistent with predictions from theories of associative activation and demonstrate the importance of automatic spreading activation processes in memory across the life span.