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Cannabis Increases Propensity for False Memories

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Cannabis Increases Propensity for False Memories [1]
Article Date: 
Friday, May 8, 2020
Friday, May 8, 2020

Tags:

  • Research [2]
  • memory [3]
  • false memories [4]

To look for longer-term effects of cannabis, the experimenters called the subjects back a week later and tested them again on the word lists, this time with a few different dummy words thrown in. They also re-interviewed the subjects about the VR scenarios using a combination of old and new questions. As before, they found lower memory accuracy in the word-association test in those who had been intoxicated compared with sober participants. There were no statistically significant differences between the groups for the virtual reality scenarios, a result that Kloft says may indicate memory decay over time in all participants.

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[1] https://www.the-scientist.com/notebook/cannabis-increases-propensity-for-false-memories-67473
[2] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/research
[3] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/memory
[4] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/false-memories