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Reduced false memory after sleep

Year: 2009

Type: preprint

Abstract: Several studies have shown that sleep contributes to the successful maintenance of previously encoded information. This research has focused exclusively on memory for studied events, as opposed to false memories. Here we report three experiments showing that sleep reduces false memories in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) memory illusion. False recognition of nonstudied words was reduced after sleep, relative to an equal retention interval of wakefulness, with no change in correct recognition of studied words. These experiments are the first to show that false memories can be reduced following sleep, and they extend the benefits of sleep to include increased accuracy of episodic memory.

Source: Learning & Memory

DOI: 10.1101/lm.1500808

Authors: Kimberly M. Fenn, David A. Gallo, Daniel Margoliash, Henry L. Roediger, Howard C. Nusbaum

Institutions: Michigan State University, University of Chicago, Washington University in St. Louis

Language: English

Topic: Memory Processes and Influences

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2128257059

Cites: 35

Cited by: 96

Related to: 10