Individual Differences in Bilinguals’ False Memories: Investigating the Role of Language Proficiency, Executive Functioning, and Memory Monitoring Pubblico

Abstract

Our memories are often considered accurate and reliable, but they are subject to reconstructive processes, sometimes resulting in the creation of false memories or memories of events that never occurred. Despite the growing interest in the malleability of memory research, the field is still in its early stages in terms of understanding the mechanisms and individual differences contributing to the formation of false memories. Recent research has analyzed the association between language background and false memory creation using the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, which has shown that bilinguals are more susceptible to forming false memories in their dominant language than in their non-dominant language(s). However, few studies have examined the potential mechanisms that lead to individual differences in false memory susceptibility within a bilingual's dominant language. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate three potential mechanisms—language proficiency, executive function, and memory monitoring—to understand individual differences in false memory expression, particularly among linguistically diverse individuals. Results from the present study did not show support for a relation between individual differences in these constructs and false memory susceptibility among bilinguals; however, the findings highlight the need for further investigation and modification of existing techniques to better understand individual differences influencing malleability of memory, in both those who are linguistically diverse and more broadly.

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Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………1

Methods…………………………………………………………………………………………...8

Results……………………………………………………………………………………………..13

Discussion………………………………………………………………………………………...19

Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………...28

References………………………………………………………………………………………....30

Appendix………………………………………………………………………………………......42

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School	Emory College
Department	Psychology
Degree	B.S.
Submission	Honors Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Psychology, Behavioral Psychology, Cognitive
Parola chiave	bilingualism individual differences false memories
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Yamasaki, Brianna, Emory University
Committee Members	Hardy, Jack, Emory University Manns, Joseph, Emory University

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