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mnemonic discrimination  

Definition

  • “Mnemonic discrimination denotes one's ability to differentiate a new stimulus from a previous, highly similar one.“ (Berstein et al., 2020).

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Bernstein, E. E., Brühl, A., Kley, H., Heinrichs, N., & McNally, R. J. (2020). Mnemonic discrimination in treatment-seeking adults with and without PTSD. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 131, 103650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2020.103650

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

  • • Yassa, M. A., & Stark, C. E. L. (2011). Pattern separation in the hippocampus. Trends in Neurosciences, 34(10), 515-525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2011.06.006

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Dataset citation(s)

  • • Aust, F., & Stahl, C. (2022, February 14). The enhancing effect of caffeine on mnemonic discrimination. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/P7F4M
  • • Ngo, C., Lin, Y., Newcombe, N., & Olson, I. R. (2018, April 2). Building up and wearing down episodic memory: Mnemonic discrimination and relational binding. Retrieved from https://osf.io/j94nz
  • • Wahlheim, C. N., Christensen, A. P., Cassidy, B. S., & Reagh, Z. (2021, November 23). Intrinsic functional connectivity in the default mode network predicts mnemonic discrimination: A connectome-based modeling approach. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/F6VG8

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