Memories are not stored as exact copies of our experiences. As a result, remembering is subject not only to memory failure, but to inaccuracies and distortions as well. Although such distortions are often retained or even enhanced over time, sleep's contribution to the development of false memories is unknown. Here, we report that a night of sleep increases both veridical and false recall in th...

Min-implication fuzzy relation equations based on Booleantype implications can also be viewed as a way of implementing fuzzy associative memories with perfect recall. In this paper, fuzzy associative memories with perfect recall are constructed, and new on-line learning algorithms adapting the weights of its interconnections are incorporated into this neural network when the solution set of the...

In the present article a model for memory retrieval of personal experiences for virtual agents is presented. It builds upon previous work and focuses on the effect memory retrieval can have on the agent’s emotional state. Memory retrieval is defined as an emotional re-appraisal of past experiences. The variation of intensity of such reexperience is explored by modeling two phenomena: downward s...

Older adults' heightened susceptibility to false memories has been linked to compromised frontal lobe functioning as estimated by Glisky and colleagues' (Glisky, Polster, & Routhieaux, 1995) neuropsychological battery (e.g., Butler, McDaniel, Domburg, Price, & Roediger, 2004). This conclusion, however, rests on the untested assumption that young adults have uniformly high frontal functioning. W...

(received 2 dec 2012, accepted 31 dec 2012) family photography is a genre of photography which is created in the context of everyday life and includes the photographs that families produce and gather through their lifetime and often keep them in their homes, workplaces and family albums, they documentsome moments in family life. these collections include the photographs which are taken by the p...

We assessed potential facilitation of congruent body posture on access to and retention of autobiographical memories in younger and older adults. Response times were shorter when body positions during prompted retrieval of autobiographical events were similar to the body positions in the original events than when body position was incongruent. Free recall of the autobiographical events two week...

We examined ACoA patients regarding their susceptibility to a range of false memory phenomena. We targeted provoked confabulation, false recall and false recognition in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott-paradigm (DRM-paradigm) as well as false recognition in a mirror reading task. ACoA patients produced more provoked confabulations and more false recognition in mirror reading than comparison subject...

Most models of Bidirectional associative memories intend to achieve that all trained pattern correspond to stable states; however, this has not been possible. Also, none of the former models has been able to recall all the trained patterns. In this work we introduce a new model of bidirectional associative memory which is not iterative and has no stability problems. It is based on the Alpha-Bet...

The effects of mood on false memories have not been studied systematically until recently. Some results seem to indicate that negative mood may reduce false recall and thus suggest an influence of emotional valence on false memory. The present research tested the effects of both valence and arousal on recall and recognition and indicates that the effect is actually due to arousal. In fact, whet...