Confabulating, Misremembering, Relearning: The Simulation Theory of Memory and Unsuccessful Remembering

This article develops a taxonomy of memory errors in terms of three conditions: the accuracy of the memory representation, the reliability of the memory process, and the internality (with respect to the remembering subject) of that process. Unlike previous taxonomies, which appeal to retention of in...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 7; p. 1857
Main Author Michaelian, Kourken
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 25.11.2016
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Causal theory of memory
Confabulation
DRM effect
episodic memory
Psychology
simulation theory of memory
causal theory of memory
episodic memory
DRM effect
confabulation
simulation theory of memory
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Summary:This article develops a taxonomy of memory errors in terms of three conditions: the accuracy of the memory representation, the reliability of the memory process, and the internality (with respect to the remembering subject) of that process. Unlike previous taxonomies, which appeal to retention of information rather than reliability or internality, this taxonomy can accommodate not only misremembering (e.g., the DRM effect), falsidical confabulation, and veridical relearning but also veridical confabulation and falsidical relearning. Moreover, because it does not assume that successful remembering presupposes retention of information, the taxonomy is compatible with recent simulation theories of remembering.
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This article was submitted to Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Reviewed by: Felipe De Brigard, Duke University, USA; Liliann Manning, University of Strasbourg, France
Edited by: Francesco Ferretti, Roma Tre University, Italy
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01857