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SUBMITTER: Suchow JW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5374054 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition 20160929 4
Confidence in our memories is influenced by many factors, including beliefs about the perceptibility or memorability of certain kinds of objects and events, as well as knowledge about our skill sets, habits, and experiences. Notoriously, our knowledge and beliefs about memory can lead us astray, causing us to be overly confident in eyewitness testimony or to overestimate the frequency of recent experiences. Here, using visual working memory as a case study, we stripped away all these potentially ...[more]