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The Discovery FilesMis-Remembering
Psychological research suggests that memory confusion in older adults is partly caused by their reliance on schematic memory, which helps people remember the gist of an event, but not necessarily the details. The absence of detail-related memory could lead to difficulty in distinguishing between a memory of something that actually happened and a false memory -- a memory a person thought happened, but didn't.
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