Can we learn from errors? Retrieval facilitates the correction of false memories for pragmatic inferences.

ABSTRACT: Errorful learning suggests that, when perfect learning has not yet been attained, errors can enhance future learning if followed by corrective feedback. Research on memory updating has shown that after retrieval, memory becomes more malleable and prone to change. Thus, retrieval of a wrong answer might provide a good context for the incorporation of feedback. Here, we tested this hypothesis using sentences including pragmatic sentence implications, commonly used for the study of false memories. Across two experiments with young adults, we hypothesized that corrective feedback would be more efficient at reducing false memories if provided immediately after retrieval, when memory is more malleable than after being exposed to the material. Participants' memory was assessed as a function of th

SUBMITTER: Maraver MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9345471 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature