Carpenter & Schacter (2017)

Flexible retrieval: When true inferences produce false memories.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(3), 335-349

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Carpenter, A. C., & Schacter, D. L. (2017). Flexible retrieval: When true inferences produce false memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(3), 335-349. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000340

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Integrative Inference Memory Processes

Measured in humans

Across four associative inference experiments (24 young adults each, tested 1 to 2 days after study), mean accuracy on inferred AC pairs ranged from 64% to 80%, closely matching memory for the directly studied pairs (66% to 78%)