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NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
Volume 449, Issue 3, Pages 151-154Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.11.021
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False memories; Concepts; Left anterior temporal lobe; Repetitive transcranial magnetic; stimulation
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False memories are ubiquitous and often to our detriment. Yet, certain pathologies, including anterior temporal lobe dementia and autism, can lead to literal recall and thus greater resistance to false memories. This inspired us to reduce false memories by temporarily inhibiting the left anterior temporal lobe, using low frequency magnetic pulse stimulation. This site has been implicated in semantic memory and conceptual labelling. After active stimulation, participants in the sham/TMS group had 36% fewer false memories than they had with sham stimulation, and intact veridical memory. This is comparable to the improvement that people with autism and semantic dementia show over normal individuals. This finding suggests a potential method for reducing certain types of false memories. Crown Copyright (c) 2008 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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