The Effects of Semantic Similarity and Emotion on False Memory Production

Yingcheng He

2021

Abstract

False memory is a long-term memory phenomenon when people report past events differently from the facts. Scientists have been interested in the generation of false memory and numerous studies demonstrated that a region in temporal pole called “semantic hub” of the brain is the origin of false memory induced by semantic similarity among different concepts. According to this neural mechanism, auditorily-presented behavior task and visually-presented retrieval task were conducted and the first hypothesis that semantic similarity promotes false memory generation was confirmed. Additionally, this research aimed to compare the difference between the influence caused by positive words and negative words on false memory. However, the result was not consistent with the second hypothesis that negatively-valenced concepts induce more false memory than positively-valenced ones. Therefore, the effect of emotion to memory distortion requires further investigation while this paper may provide novel insight into the relationship between false memory and emotion.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

He Y. (2021). The Effects of Semantic Similarity and Emotion on False Memory Production. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare - Volume 1: CAIH, ISBN 978-989-758-594-4, pages 225-229. DOI: 10.5220/0011290900003444

in Bibtex Style

@conference{caih21,
author={Yingcheng He},
title={The Effects of Semantic Similarity and Emotion on False Memory Production},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare - Volume 1: CAIH,},
year={2021},
pages={225-229},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011290900003444},
isbn={978-989-758-594-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare - Volume 1: CAIH,
TI - The Effects of Semantic Similarity and Emotion on False Memory Production
SN - 978-989-758-594-4
AU - He Y.
PY - 2021
SP - 225
EP - 229
DO - 10.5220/0011290900003444