Some forms of biased recall are Bayesian. This is because “recall” is actually a process of reconstruction from noisy data, so naturally priors play a role.
Here’s a fun experiment showing how people’s priors on fruit size (pineapples > apples > raspberries …) influenced their recollection of synthetic images where the sizes were manipulated: A Bayesian Account of Reconstructive Memory
I think this framework captures about half of the examples of biased recall mentioned in the Wikipedia article.
Some forms of biased recall are Bayesian. This is because “recall” is actually a process of reconstruction from noisy data, so naturally priors play a role.
Here’s a fun experiment showing how people’s priors on fruit size (pineapples > apples > raspberries …) influenced their recollection of synthetic images where the sizes were manipulated: A Bayesian Account of Reconstructive Memory
I think this framework captures about half of the examples of biased recall mentioned in the Wikipedia article.