Remembering a Virtual Museum Tour: Viewing Time, Memory Reactivation, and Memory Distortion.

ABSTRACT: A variety of evidence demonstrates that memory is a reconstructive process prone to errors and distortions. However, the complex relationship between memory encoding, strength of memory reactivation, and the likelihood of reporting true or false memories has yet to be ascertained. We address this issue in a setting that mimics a real-life experience: We asked participants to take a virtual museum tour in which they freely explored artworks included in the exhibit, while we measured the participants' spontaneous viewing time of each explored artwork. In a following memory reactivation phase, participants were presented again with explored artworks (reactivated targets), followed by novel artworks not belonging to the same exhibit (activated lures). For each of these objects, participants pr

SUBMITTER: Daviddi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9048676 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature