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The Role of language proficiency in false memory: A mini review
Autor(es)
Materia
False memories
False recognition
DRM paradigm
Bilingualism
Language proficiency
Fecha de publicación
2021
Editor
Frontiers
Citación
Suarez M and Beato MS (2021) The Role of Language Proficiency in False Memory: A Mini Review. Front. Psychol. 12:659434. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.659434
Resumen
[ENG]Memory errors and, specifically, false memories in the Deese/Roediger–McDermott
paradigm have been extensively studied in the past decades. Most studies have
investigated false memory in monolinguals’ native or first language (L1), but interest
has also grown in examining false memories in participants’ second language (L2)
with different proficiency levels. The main purpose of this manuscript is to review the
current state of knowledge on the role of language proficiency on false memories
when participants encode and retrieve information in the same language. To do
so, a systematic literature search was conducted, and the available studies were
reviewed. These studies differed in, for example, age, language proficiency, or material
characteristics, including both high and low associative strength lists, and they reported
different results. In this review, we attempted to make sense of the apparently
contradictory results by carefully identifying participants’ language dominance and L2
proficiency. Specifically, the results indicated that, first, people are more prone to
produce false memories in their dominant than in their non-dominant language. This
result generalizes to lists with high and low associative strength, as well as to participants
of different ages. Second, false memories do not differ between two languages when
speakers are equally proficient in both languages. Finally, highly proficient L2 speakers
produce more false memories in their L2 than speakers with lower L2 proficiency. The
results of this review will be considered in the light of the theoretical frameworks of false
memories and bilingual language processing.
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10.3389/fpsyg.2021.659434
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