Summit

2024 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2024

How False Memory Impacts Fear Generalization: A MEG Investigation

Virtual · October 2024

Posters · Cognitive Neuroscience

  • Kaiyuan Pang
    Fudan University
  • Yang Lu
    Fudan University
  • Haibin Yu
    Fudan University
  • Jing Tian
    Fudan University
  • Jianqin Wang
    Fudan University

Abstract

Do people distort their memories of past fear experiences? Combining the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm with fear conditioning, we showed robust false memories of fear which later led to avoidance behavior. Magnetoencephalography evidence revealed that false fear memories elicited avoidance via impacting connectivity among hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and the temporal pole.

Memory

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