Explaining Theories of Verbal False Memory

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10.2991/iccese-19.2019.28How to use a DOI?

Keywords

verbal false memory; FTT; AAT; verbatim traces; gist traces

Abstract

Verbal false memory is one of the most important research fields in cognitive science, especially in language and memory. As to the explaining theories of verbal false memory, researchers have experienced a series of theoretical explorations. They have proposed explaining theories such as the schema-reconstructive framework, the fuzzy-trace theory or the FTT, the source monitoring framework, the memory attribution theory and recently the associative-activation theory or the AAT. This paper intends to make comment on the two most popular explaining theories: the FTT and the AAT. The former has explained verbal false memory with verbatim traces and gist traces, while the latter requires a correlation between concepts and participants’ knowledge base and a kind of automation to the activation of the relatedness as well. However, both explaining theories are not completely sufficient to this phenomenon. As far as the FTT is concerned, the gist connecting mechanism is too vague and it is not clear that whether the ability to connect the gist meaning is domain independent or domain dependent, etc. As to the AAT, the automation and the relation between conceptual structure and knowledge base are not persuasive enough. In order to avoid the occurrence of these problems, related concepts of semantic network can be introduced to further supplement the researches and thus, the two explaining theories can be made the most persuasive.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2019)
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