Sleep Deprivation Enhances False Memory on the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) Task

Authors

  • Kedarmal Verma Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India
  • Naveen Kashyap Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v12i1.339

Keywords:

sleep, deprivation, DRM, false memory, recognition memory

Abstract

False memories are memories that people report to be true with high confidence, even though they had never encountered the fact behind the memory in reality. Such memories possess strong semantic association with already existing encoded memories which hence appear to be familiar. Sleep is known to provide optimal conditions for the consolidation of long-term memories whereas the deprivation of sleep is known to hinder memory’s consolidation process. The role of sleep in the formation and enhancement of false memories was tested. The Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) task was used to induce false memory in thirty-nine male volunteers who either slept or remained awake following learning. Following a night of recovery sleep both groups returned for retrieval of memory. It was found that sleep deprivation in comparison to sleep led to higher false memory.

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Published

2019-04-30

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2019)

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Research Articles

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