Decontextualization from a naturalistic scene

Decontextualization from a naturalistic scene decreases false alarms to nonschematic lures in humans.

“when items were decontextualized from a naturalistic scene, false alarms to nonschematic lures decreased.”

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Systematically reducing schematic information during encoding differentially impacts true and false memory at retrieval in younger and older adults

Psychology and aging·23 Jul 2026