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Cryptomnesia: Delineating inadvertent plagiarism
Alan S. Brown, Dana R. Murphy · 1989 · Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15(3), 432-442
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Summary
Experimental work showing that people can reproduce previously encountered ideas while misattributing them as original, a memory error now commonly called cryptomnesia.
Why it matters here
Primary psychological source for the idea that apparent novel memories can sometimes come from forgotten exposure rather than paranormal access.