Sleep Loss Causes False Memory
Running Head: Sleep Loss Causes False Memory
Sleep Loss Causes False Memory
Nusrat Nishat
Queens Collegiate
Sleep Loss Causes False Memory
Abstract
There are times when people claim to remember events that never happened. They are even extremely confident about it. This happens because lack of sleep impairs the retrieval of stored memories. After an experiment, it was proven that people who stay awake right after studying remember the wrong information, creating false memories, while people who immediately sleep after studying remember the correct information for a test. Another experiment showed that people who received 5 hours or less of sleep were more likely to say that they saw a news video when they never did. I was very surprised …show more content…
I know that many people I interact with may have false memories, since they receive very few hours of sleep.
Keywords: false memory, sleep deprivation, memory, experiment
Sleep Loss Causes False Memory The articles, “Sleep Loss Produces False Memories” and “Less Than 5 Hours of Sleep Leads to False Memories”, are both about how sleep deprivations leads to false memory and other memory related issues. In the article “Sleep Loss Produces False Memories” by Susanne Dieklmann, Hans- Peter Landlot, Olaf Lahl, Jan Born and Ullrich Wagner, the authors tell us that human memory is not a literal record of the world, but is influenced by knowledge that already exists in the brain. Therefore, sometimes what people retrieve from memory differs from what was originally encoded. Sleep is very important when it comes to memory formation. While people sleep, new memories are strengthened and redistributed to other brain regions for long-term storage. This restricting may sometimes lead to the formation of false memories because after the
Sleep Loss Causes False Memory
Nusrat Nishat
Queens Collegiate
Sleep Loss Causes False Memory
Abstract
There are times when people claim to remember events that never happened. They are even extremely confident about it. This happens because lack of sleep impairs the retrieval of stored memories. After an experiment, it was proven that people who stay awake right after studying remember the wrong information, creating false memories, while people who immediately sleep after studying remember the correct information for a test. Another experiment showed that people who received 5 hours or less of sleep were more likely to say that they saw a news video when they never did. I was very surprised …show more content…
I know that many people I interact with may have false memories, since they receive very few hours of sleep.
Keywords: false memory, sleep deprivation, memory, experiment
Sleep Loss Causes False Memory The articles, “Sleep Loss Produces False Memories” and “Less Than 5 Hours of Sleep Leads to False Memories”, are both about how sleep deprivations leads to false memory and other memory related issues. In the article “Sleep Loss Produces False Memories” by Susanne Dieklmann, Hans- Peter Landlot, Olaf Lahl, Jan Born and Ullrich Wagner, the authors tell us that human memory is not a literal record of the world, but is influenced by knowledge that already exists in the brain. Therefore, sometimes what people retrieve from memory differs from what was originally encoded. Sleep is very important when it comes to memory formation. While people sleep, new memories are strengthened and redistributed to other brain regions for long-term storage. This restricting may sometimes lead to the formation of false memories because after the