Reconstruction of automobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory

By Elizabeth F. Loftus, John Palmer. 1974

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Variability among word lists in eliciting memory illusions: evidence for associative activation and monitoring (2002, background): “In addition , unlike other false memory paradigms, there was no attempt to explicitly insert misleading or false information (e.g., Loftus & Palmer, 1974).”
Neural Ensembles in CA3 Transiently Encode Paths Forward of the Animal at a Decision Point (2007, background): “These types of memory can be characterized by replay or recall of previously encoded information and experience (Loftus and Palmer, 1974; Tulving, 1984; Squire, 1992; Cohen and Eichenbaum, 1993).”
Attachment Stability From Infancy to Adulthood: Meta-Analysis and Dynamic Modeling of Developmental Mechanisms (2002, background): “Early research in this area demonstrated that people often misremember events when they are later exposed to inaccurate information about those events (Loftus & Palmer, 1974).”
Framing News Stories: The Role of Visual Imagery in Priming Racial Stereotypes (2006, background): “The single-code theory assumes an undifferentiated encoding of the two modalities (Grimes, 1990 1996 ; Loftus & Palmer, 1974 ; Loftus, Miller, & Burns, 1978 ; Pezdek, 1977 ).”
Mental Models: Theoretical Issues for Visualizations in Science Education (2005, background): “Indeed to speak of memory in general, individuals’ mental representations are often fragmented, malleable, and subject to reconstructive processing (e.g., Loftus & Palmer, 1974; Loftus, Miller, & Burns, 1978).”
He did it! She did it! No, she did not! Multiple causal explanations and the continued influence of misinformation (2015, background): “…with the original event memory representation, by either partially overwriting the original memory trace (Belli, Lindsay, Gales, & McCarthy, 1994; Loftus & Palmer, 1974; Loftus et al., 1978; but see McCloskey & Zaragoza, 1985), or by blocking the original memory trace at retrieval (Bowers &…”
Moving words: dynamic representations in language comprehension (2004, background): “To complete the circle started in our introduction, our findings provide an explanation for the well-known findings of Loftus and Palmer (1974).”
FALSE MEMORIES ABOUT FOOD CAN LEAD TO FOOD AVOIDANCE (2005, unknown): “Misleading details can be planted into a person’s memory for an event that actually occurred (e.g., Loftus & Palmer, 1974; see Ayers & Reder, 1998, for review).”