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Theoretical framework reveals how immersive virtual reality experiences distort autobiographical recall in users, suggesting virtual events involuntarily alter real-world episodic memories.
Theoretical article proposing the construct of virtual confabulation: the normative process by which virtual memories formed in immersive VR are retrieved and integrated into the autobiographical record of the physical world, with involuntary distortions of source, content, or temporal context. Grounded in episodic memory, source monitoring, and VR memory research. Author: André Cicivizzo, Universidade Paulista (UNIP).
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