Frost, PeterLacroix, DonnaSanborn, Nicole2010-09-292010-09-292003https://hdl.handle.net/10474/583Accepted ManuscriptDuring a simulated witness interrogation, participants were encouraged to confabulate an account consistent with false information concerning a videotaped event. The interviewer verbally affirmed some false responses. Previous research has shown that, a week later, participants often recognize confabulated events that were affirmed by the experimenter as being from the video. What is unclear is whether confirmatory feedback encouraged a change in the mental representation of the confabulated events to fit the original event or confirmation might have merely encouraged a change in beliefs about the event. To further understand the mechanisms that underlie the confirmatory feedback effect, participants were asked to judge the phenomenological experience associated with false recognition.194826 bytesen-USPublisher retains all ownership rights. Further reproduction in violation of copyright is prohibitedmemoryrecognitionfalse recollectionsArticleapplication/pdf