Schacter and His Colleagues Used FMRI to Examine Memory Retrieval

question 29

Multiple Choice

Schacter and his colleagues used fMRI to examine memory retrieval in subjects who believed that they had been abducted by aliens.They found subjects:

• A) who reported alien abduction had no actual recall of the event.
• B) reported memories that felt real to them but appeared to be false recall and recognition when examined in the lab.
• C) had accurate source monitoring but faulty recall.
• D) had unusual activation of the hippocampus.

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