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However, although the DRM task is widely considered a 'false memory' paradigm, some researchers consider DRM illusions to be based on the activation of semantic memory networks in the brain, and argue that such semantic gist-based false memory errors may actually be useful in some scenarios ( e.g., remembering the forest for the trees remembering that a word list was about 'doctors', even though the actual word 'doctor' was never presented for study). If encoding and retrieval components of the task occur in the same session, the entire task can take as little as 2 - 30 min. A strength of using this task to study false memory is its simplicity and short duration. This false memory effect has been robustly demonstrated across short ( e.g., immediate, 20 min) and long ( e.g., 1, 7, 60 d) delays between encoding and memory testing. Typically, the critical word is recognized with high probability and confidence. In the recognition memory version of the task, subjects are asked whether they remember previously presented words, as well as related (but never presented) critical lure words ('doctor').

After a delay, subjects are asked to recall or recognize these words. The Deese, Roediger and McDermott (DRM) task is a false memory paradigm in which subjects are presented with lists of semantically related words ( e.g., nurse, hospital, etc.) at encoding.

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