La Monitorización de las Fuentes como Estrategia para Establecer el Origen de los Recuerdos

Abstract

To establish the origin of memories people carry out a number of processes of reasoning, called “source monitoring” (Johnson & Raye, 1981; Johnson, Hashtroudi & Lindsay, 1993). This work analyzes how these processes are made, what variables affect them, their development, and the underlying brain mechanisms of such processes. Furthermore, we discuss the application of source monitoring to two research field: eyewitness memory, and cognitive explanation of hallucination. Findings on eyewitness memory define the problems associated with eyewitness suggestibility and they outline certain intervention rules. Results on hallucinations indicate that impairments in source monitoring are only associated with hallucinating schizophrenic patients, but they cast doubt on its specific role in the genesis of the hallucinatory phenomenon.