The False Recognition Test, a new tool for the assessment of false memories, with normative data from an Italian sample.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

False memory can be defined as remembering something that did not happen. To a certain extent it is a normal phenomenon, but its occurrence seems to increase in healthy and pathological aging, possibly providing relevant clues on some clinical conditions in the spectrum of dementia. We adapted a well-established Deed-Roediger-McDermott paradigm, frequently used in experimental contexts, to devise a new neuropsychological assessment tool, the False Recognition Test (FRT), that can investigate classical facets of episodic memory performance (i.e. free recall and recognition), and assess proneness to produce semantically related and non-semantic false memories. Here we describe the FRT and provide normative data and correction grids to consider the possible effects of age

SUBMITTER: Panico F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11470865 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature