title: Evidence of mnemonic ability selectively affecting truthful and deceptive response dynamics.
abstract: In the executive model of deception, the telling of a lie necessitates the inhibition of a veridical prepotent response (the truth), and such inhibition incurs a temporal penalty, manifest as a longer response time. If memory processes are engaged in generating such truths, then memory function should affect truthful and deceptive response times. To investigate this we examined the relationship between performance on a semantic knowledge deception task and a test of verbal memory in 40 college students. We found that verbal memory performance differentially affects the temporal parameters of truth and deception.
authors.affiliation: SCANLab, Academic Clinical Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, The Longley Centre, Northern General Hospital, University of Sheffield, England. t.f.farrow@sheffield.ac.uk
authors.forename: Tom F D
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Farrow
authors.forename: Marie-Clare
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Hopwood
authors.forename: Randolph W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Parks
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Hunter
authors.forename: Sean A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Spence
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D008192:Deception; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D011930:Reaction Time; D014342:Truth Disclosure; D014706:Verbal Learning; D055815:Young Adult