Objects were oversized by 33% and distances by 19% horizontally in neglect patients, whereas all control groups showed nearly veridical spatial coding (deviations<5%).
In the courtroom, even minor memory distortions can have severe consequences that are partly driven by common misunderstandings about memory — for example, that memory is more veridical than it may actually be.
I'd never bothered to visit the dungeon before – but its cheesy tableaux of caged, flayed and beheaded dummy felons spattered with ersatz gore would probably be a nice distraction from the far more veridical Guignol that awaited me.
It is shown that for a study of a given duration, if observations are spaced too far apart the resulting data can support misleading conclusions, whereas if observations are spaced relatively close together, a much more veridical picture of the process of interest is provided.
In their meta-study, Rowe and Wright described that 'expert judgement of risk is unlikely to be more veridical than that of non-experts' [8].
As test delay increases, the perception of temporal order becomes more veridical, with the percentage of 'event before action' responses falling toward zero.
This is possible, but unlikely, because it cannot explain the initial bias and the systematic drift towards the more veridical range: that is, the observed shift was more systematic than just from a less accurate to a more accurate judgment.
The present results suggest, however, that more complete stimulus information does not necessarily result in better (more veridical) performance: A stronger effect of def does not guarantee a more accurate response.
The reviewed studies on illusions reveal that low alpha power does not lead to more veridical perception per se.
When the expected rewards are higher, responses are more veridical and less likely to be swayed by microstimulation.
