ELECTRN 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Temporal Lobe, Frontal Lobe, Case Report
Document Summary
Case report: questionable recollections of a shooting incident in a victim with frontal lobe injury by. Pseudo-memories can be elicited by providing people with misinformation. Study where participants believed they have a memory of a plane crash in amsterdam as they were sensitive to misinformation implicitly implied by question asked: authors argued that participants had created pseudo-memories because of source-monitoring errors. > participant mistook- self-generated image for their own memories. When retrieving information from memory -> frontal lobes are responsible for evaluating source of recollected information: people with frontal lobe injury often make source-monitoring errors -> more prone to crease pseudo- memories. Someone with frontal lobe damage as result of crime may easily take an event provided by others for truly experienced memories. First interview with police (3. 5 weeks after incident) victim said he did not remember anything but when he was interviewed 12, 14 and 15 weeks after incident he claimed he recovered his memories of the incident.
