The experiment was meant to divide their attention and take note of what and how much was remembered in the end. A total of 178 children and young adults participated in the study; seventy-eight of them were 7-year-olds and forty-eight participants were 11-year-olds who received a present for participating. The remaining fifty-two young adults got class credit. A total of 10 lists were used; five of them had a total of 10 words on each list and all lists were negative, and the other five lists had a total of 10 neutral words on each list. The words were presented in random order and the participants were distracted because 20 smileys popped up during each list; one before and after each word and they were either colored red or green. there
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A total of 34 different studies were used. The literature was searched in two categories; false memory retrieval and encoding that led to false memories, where all the points on certain conditions had to be met. The criteria set by (Kurkela, & Dennis 2016) included “participants who had done a whole brain analysis, people without mental illness or neuropsychological problems and without influence of pharmaceuticals and the primary methodology was the (fMRI)”. The results show that there was general false retrieval in participants, and that most of the same parts of the brain were responsible for false memories when it came to both pictures and verbal cues. The results also showed that the results for the verbal and visual stimuli were consistent with past studies where people were lured by cues when it came to retrieving information from lists. When it comes to encoding information, people tend to either remember gist information or specific information, but the problems arise when people rely on the former. The study was conclusive with results from several different neural studies that show the various parts of the brain that were responsible for the encoding and retrieval memory process. It showed that false retrieval was supported by the top down cognitive process, which is where a person focuses on the bigger picture before getting into the finer details of things. More (fMRI) types of research should be done to find out more information on this topic, using the same main criteria, but with different
A total of 34 different studies were used. The literature was searched in two categories; false memory retrieval and encoding that led to false memories, where all the points on certain conditions had to be met. The criteria set by (Kurkela, & Dennis 2016) included “participants who had done a whole brain analysis, people without mental illness or neuropsychological problems and without influence of pharmaceuticals and the primary methodology was the (fMRI)”. The results show that there was general false retrieval in participants, and that most of the same parts of the brain were responsible for false memories when it came to both pictures and verbal cues. The results also showed that the results for the verbal and visual stimuli were consistent with past studies where people were lured by cues when it came to retrieving information from lists. When it comes to encoding information, people tend to either remember gist information or specific information, but the problems arise when people rely on the former. The study was conclusive with results from several different neural studies that show the various parts of the brain that were responsible for the encoding and retrieval memory process. It showed that false retrieval was supported by the top down cognitive process, which is where a person focuses on the bigger picture before getting into the finer details of things. More (fMRI) types of research should be done to find out more information on this topic, using the same main criteria, but with different