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Behavioral and EEG Studies of the Misinformation Effect

Student: Kapitsyn Maksim

Supervisor: Beatriz Martín-Luengo

Faculty: Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience

Educational Programme: Cognitive Sciences and Technologies: From Neuron to Cognition (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

The misinformation effect manifests itself when someone recalls false post-event information as correct and event-related. We conducted an EEG study of neural correlates of this effect, in which for the first time misinformation was contrasted with false alarms, defined as in the signal detection theory (SDT). Thanks to this comparison, our behavioral data showed the presence of the studied effect. We found no significant differences between the EEG responses during false alarms and misinformation acceptance. Other results were either challenging previous studies or reported for the first time. This paper also describes the EEG signal origin and the SDT framework, as well as the history of the misinformation effect.

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