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Self-reference enhances false memory across all ages. Younger adults show increased false recollection, while older adults exhibit heightened familiarity with critical lures, impacting memory mechanisms.

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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • The role of self-reference in true memory is well-established.
  • Limited research exists on how self-reference influences false memory development throughout the lifespan.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of self-reference on associative false memory in children, younger adults, and older adults.
  • To explore the underlying memory mechanisms (recollection and familiarity) through which self-reference affects false memory across different age groups.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm with a self-reference manipulation.
  • Participants (children, younger adults, older adults) encoded word lists associated with their name, another person's name, or a neutral stimulus.
  • Measured true and false recognition memory, alongside recollection and familiarity.

Main Results:

  • A self-enhanced false memory effect was observed in all age groups, with more false memories in the self-reference condition.
  • Self-reference increased false recollection in younger adults.
  • Self-reference facilitated familiarity of critical lures in older adults.

Conclusions:

  • Self-reference amplifies false memory across the lifespan, but through distinct mechanisms: increased false recollection in younger adults and enhanced familiarity in older adults.
  • Findings suggest self-relevance is a crucial factor in understanding false memory, with implications for evaluating eyewitness testimony and potential risk factors.