Summit
2024 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2024
How False Memory Impacts Fear Generalization: A MEG Investigation
- 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