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SUBMITTER: Sikora-Wachowicz B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6923284 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sikora-Wachowicz Barbara B Lewandowska Koryna K Keresztes Attila A Werkle-Bergner Markus M Marek Tadeusz T Fafrowicz Magdalena M
Frontiers in psychology 20191213
Compared to young adults, older adults are more susceptible to endorse false memories as genuine and exhibit higher confidence in their decisions to do so. While most studies to date have addressed this phenomenon in the context of episodic memory, the literature on age-differences in false recognition during short-term memory (STM) is scarce. Hence, the present study investigated age-related differences in the rate of false alarms (FA) and subsequent confidence judgments in STM. Thirty-three yo ...[more]