By Léna Heuzé False memories are phenomena of mnesic distortion that refer to the recall or recognition of events that never took place (Guyard & Piolino, 2006). The entire population seems to be subject to these memory errors. Thus, in Read More
In the literature, cognitive aging is particularly highlighted about decline of memory. For several years now, psychologists have been interested, no more by the quantity of recalls but by their quality. Researchers explore memory mistakes that are called false memories. Read More
We conducted this study in order to investigate the production of false memories with aging. A false memory is defined as remembering an event that never happened or as falsely remembering an event that indeed happened. This definition distinguishes memory Read More