Veridical and false memory for scenic material in posttraumatic stress disorder

Marit Hauschildt; Maarten J V Peters; Lena Jelinek; Steffen Moritz

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2011.10.013

Veridical and false memory for scenic material in posttraumatic stress disorder

Marit Hauschildt^*, Maarten J V Peters, Lena Jelinek, Steffen Moritz

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Abstract

The question whether memory aberrations in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also manifest as an increased production of false memories is important for both theoretical and practical reasons, but is yet unsolved. Therefore, for the present study we investigated veridical and false recognition in PTSD with a new scenic variant of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, which was administered to traumatized individuals with PTSD (n=32), traumatized individuals without PTSD (n=30), and non-traumatized controls (n=30). The PTSD group neither produced higher rates of false memories nor expressed more confidence in errors, but did show inferior memory sensitivity. Whereas depressive symptoms did not correlate with veridical nor false recognition, state dissociation was positively associated with false memories.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	80-89
Number of pages	10
Journal	Consciousness and cognition
Volume	21
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.10.013
Publication status	Published - Mar 2012

Keywords

Arousal
Dissociation
DRM paradigm
False memory
Memory
PTSD
Recognition memory
Trauma

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