Topic: false memories

Auditory memory is critical for nearly every daily task we perform involving sounds. However, memory is also imperfect, and the reasons for memory errors remain poorly understood. We probed auditory memory using a sound recognition experiment: sounds were presented serially, with some repeating, and participants judged whether each stimulus had occurred previously. Recognition was well above chance but decreased with the number of intervening stimuli between the first and second presentations of repeated sounds (the interstimulus interval; ISI). Some sounds were mistakenly judged to be novel w