False memories, false preferences: Flexible retrieval mechanisms supporting successful inference bias novel decisions.

ABSTRACT: Prior research suggests that episodic memory can guide value-based decisions when single episodes are encoded in relation to the specific reward-context in which they were experienced. The current experiments examine the role that a flexible recombination-related retrieval mechanism that allows one to link together distinct events plays in the misattribution of specific reward-contexts across distinct episodes. To determine whether the same recombination-related retrieval mechanism supports both successful inference and transfer of reward-context across episodes, we developed a modified version of an associative inference paradigm in which participants encoded overlapping associations (AB, BC) that could later be linked to support inferential retrieval (AC), where one element ("A") was tie

SUBMITTER: Carpenter AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6033641 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature