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Gordon, Andrew, Quadflieg, Susanne, Brooks, Jonathan C. W. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3335-6209, Ecker, Ullrich K. H. and Lewandowsky, Stephan
(2019)
Keeping track of ‘alternative facts’: The neural correlates of processing misinformation corrections.
NeuroImage, 193.
pp. 46-56.
ISSN 1053-8119
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Abstract
Upon receiving a correction, initially presented misinformation often continues to influence people's judgment and reasoning. Whereas some researchers believe that this so-called continued influence effect of misinformation (CIEM) simply arises from the insufficient encoding and integration of corrective claims, others assume that it arises from a competition between the correct information and the initial misinformation in memory. To examine these possibilities, we conducted two functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies. In each study, participants were asked to (a) read a series of brief news reports that contained confirmations or corrections of prior information and (b) evaluate whether subsequently presented memory probes matched the reports' correct facts rather than the initial misinformation. Both studies revealed that following correction-containing news reports, participants struggled to refute mismatching memory probes, especially when they referred to initial misinformation (as opposed to mismatching probes with novel information). We found little evidence, however, that the encoding of confirmations and corrections produced systematic neural processing differences indicative of distinct encoding strategies. Instead, we discovered that following corrections, participants exhibited increased activity in the left angular gyrus and the bilateral precuneus in response to mismatching memory probes that contained prior misinformation, compared to novel mismatch probes. These findings favour the notion that people's susceptibility to the CIEM arises from the concurrent retention of both correct and incorrect information in memory.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: This research was made possible through University of Bristol internal funds , a research grant from the Australian Research Council ( DP160103596 ) awarded to Ullrich Ecker and Stephan Lewandowsky, and funding from the Royal Society and Psychonomic Society awarded to Stephan Lewandowsky. This research was supported by RCUK funding from the EPSRC . Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Elsevier Inc. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | neurology,cognitive neuroscience ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2800/2808 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2022 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 17:33 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/83483 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.03.014 |
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