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Published on: January 31, 2017
Hemispheric asymmetry in the induction of false memories
1Behavior and Information Processing Unit, Graduate School of Human Informatics, Nagoya University, Japan. itoy@info.human.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate hemispheric asymmetry in verbal memory by using a false recognition paradigm and a standard list learning paradigm, which can induce high false recognition for semantically related distractors. The experiment showed that the LH could discriminate the targets from the related distractors more accurately than the RH. This result was attributed to the hemispheric difference in the hit rate rather than in false recognition. The results of the present study suggest that the model of RH coarse semantic coding and LH fine semantic coding is applicable not only to language processing but also to verbal memory.
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