Eyewitness Testimony
the phenomenon in which our memories are disfigured by external cues.
what is memory contamination?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661325000270
When a memory is reactivated, it briefly becomes unstable and vulnerable to change. This process leads to distortions.
What is reconsolidation?
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/humanneuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1217093/full
This brain process is identified as “binding new information to existing schemas,” enabling long-term storage.
What is hippocampal–neocortical integration?
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/humanneuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1217093/full
Implicit memory is described as “attention-Indifferent” because of what key feature?
It does not require attentional resources to enhance later performance.
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-040723-012736
What term describes the ability to hold sensory details briefly before they enter working memory?
What is Sensory persistence
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-040723-012736
A study by this experimenter highlights that the exaggeration of verbs can change how we remember things.
When the hippocampus relies too heavily on pattern completion rather than pattern separation, people are more prone to this error (remembering something that never happened).
This term refers to the “true structural change” in neurons as memories become long-term.
What is cellular consolidation?
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/humanneuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1217093/full
This type of information gets through when there is no attention given to a message
What is low-level information?
What mechanism explains why long-term memories can influence where we look during visual search?
What is memory-driven gaze bias.
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-040723-012736
Which component of the embedded-processes model can allow irrelevant or misleading information to enter memory?
What is the activated long-term memory (aLTM) pool.
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-040723-012736
This theoretical model proposes that working memory consists of the “focus of attention” and the “activated portion of long-term memory.”
What is the Embedded-Processes Model?
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-040723-012736
This part of the hippocampus produces new neurons in adulthood, giving it a unique advantage over other memory regions.
What is the dentate gyrus?
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0896-6273%2804%2900527-6
This state passes the first eyewitness identification reform bill, tackling a leading cause of wrongful convictions
What is Indiana?
https://innocenceproject.org/tags/eyewitness-misidentification/
Stress decreases neurogenesis and increases reliance on older, established memory traces, which increases this reconstructive error.
What is filling in gaps incorrectly using previous experiences?
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0896-6273%2804%2900527-6
In the embedded-processes model, this component represents the small set of items currently held with priority in memory.
What is the focus of attention (FoA)?
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-040723-012736
This man was convicted of armed robbery due to faulty eyewitness testimony, leading him to spend 17 years of his life behind bars.
Who is Royal Clark?
Immature granule cells normally introduce variability into hippocampal circuits; when this variability is absent, the system becomes biased toward past associations, increasing this distortion in which older memories intrude on newer ones.
What is proactive interference?
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0896-6273%2804%2900527-6
This phenomenon describes how repeated memory reactivation can lead to memories that are more detailed but also more prone to distortion.
What is reconsolidation-based memory updating?
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/humanneuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1217093/full
When attention is withdrawn, items can remain accessible for a short time in this intermediate state, which bridges the gap between the focus of attention and long-term storage
What is activated long-term memory (aLTM)?
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-040723-012736