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phenomenon > memory phenomenon > source attribution error > cryptomnesia

Preferred term

cryptomnesia  

Definition

  • A source misattribution error occurring when a person generates content (a word, idea, song, solution to a problem, etc.) and perceives it as original in the current context, whereas it was in fact previously produced either by themselves or by someone else.

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Synonym(s)

  • cryptomnesic experience
  • inadvertent plagiarism
  • unconscious plagiarism

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Brédart, S., Lampinen, J., & Defeldre, A.-C. (2003). Phenomenal characteristics of cryptomnesia. Memory, 11(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/741938174

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Brown, A. S., & Murphy, D. R. (1989). Cryptomnesia: Delineating inadvertent plagiarism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15(3), 432–442. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.15.3.432

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Gingerich, A. C., & Sullivan, M. C. (2013). Claiming hidden memories as one’s own: A review of inadvertent plagiarism. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 25(8), 903-916. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2013.841674

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • McCarroll, C. J., & Sant’Anna, A. (2023). Cryptomnesia: A three-factor account. Synthese, 201(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-04002-4

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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In other languages

  • cryptomnésie

    French

  • expérience cryptomnésique
  • plagiat inconscient
  • plagiat involontaire

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-M6P9BP15-R

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