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The Formation of False Memories

1995; Slack Incorporated (United States); Volume: 25; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3928/0048-5713-19951201-07

1938-2456

Elizabeth F. Loftus, Jacqueline E. Pickrell,

Memory and Neural Mechanisms

For most of this century, experimental psychologists have been interested in how and why memory fails. As Greene2 has aptly noted, memories do not exist in a vacuum. Rather, they continually disrupt each other, through a mechanism that we call interference. Literally thousands of studies have documented how our memories can be disrupted by things that we experienced earlier (proactive interference) or things that we experienced later (retroactive interference).