Two experiments involving more than 140 people finds that after participants watched a silent film depicting a crime and subsequently heard an inaccurate retelling of the crime, people who were warned about the inaccuracy of the retelling were less susceptible to the misinformation than people who were not warned; the study further found that the warning was protective whether it was delivered before or after the misinformation and that warned participants displayed increased brain visual activity related to the original event and decreased brain auditory activity related to the misinformation during memory tests.
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Article #20-08595: "Protecting memory from misinformation: Warnings modulate cortical reinstatement during memory retrieval," by Jessica M. Karanian et al.
MEDIA CONTACT: Jessica M. Karanian, Fairfield University, CT; e-mail: < jessica.karanian@fairfield.edu >
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences