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This study examined the effect of false memory on temporal perception. The Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) paradigm, which elicits false recognition of a nonpresented word, was used to determine whether the perceived duration of falsely remembered words was longer than that for control words. The study results revealed that the perceived duration for falsely recognized words was longer than that for correctly rejected words. This is the first study to show the effect of false memory on temporal perception and suggests that temporal perception can be affected by conceptual fluency without any perceptual repetition.
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This research was supported by a grant to the first author from the Research Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists.
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Ono, F., Kawahara, Ji. The effect of false memory on temporal perception. Psychological Research 72, 61–64 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-006-0073-3
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