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Or maybe they were confused. There's no such thing as "Orville Redenbacher’s Gourmet Fresh Microwave Popcorn", but you can go down to the store and buy some "Or
by hugh3 15y ago
Or maybe they were confused. There's no such thing as "Orville Redenbacher’s Gourmet Fresh Microwave Popcorn", but you can go down to the store and buy some "Orville Redenbacher Gourmet Popping Corn", so do the researchers really expect me to remember the difference?
- nooneelse 15y agoThat is the thread of this that I would pull if I had a spare platoon of researchers to send into this territory. How distinctive a memory is "implantable"? As it is, I guess we will just have to wait until someone else does that work. Speaking of... is there some good way to get notified when a paper is published which builds on some known body of work? Like can I get an email digest updating me if any of a set of papers are referenced in new papers? Addendum: Yes... "Track Citation" on JSTOR does this (if one makes an account)... I doubt it does a pretty digest that helps me remember why I wanted to know about the new papers (what question about the original paper I was interested in having future research nail down), but it will have to do for now.
- william42 15y agoMuch more distinctive memories have been "implanted" by mistake, such as child abuse.
- charlieflowers 15y agoThe way I read it, the false memory wasn't that they ate it last week ... it was that they have ever eaten it. And since the fake product name sounds so much like real product names, it sounds like they were just confused over the name. Which undermines the point of the study significantly. Am I reading something wrong?