The ontogeny and durability of true and false memories: a fuzzy trace account.
Fuzzy-trace theory has been developed by Brainerd and Reyna (1998, this issue) to explain a variety of findings. Here we explore the way that fuzzy-trace theory handles three phenomena concerning the creation and maintenance of false memories. We show that fuzzy-trace theory can account for seemingly paradoxical findings, thus providing theoretical clarity that has heretofore been lacking in the developmental literature.
Ceci
S J
SJ
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Bruck
M
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D002666:Psychology, Child