Cryptomnesia Cryptomnesia occurs when an individual is certain that a certain word, idea, song, etc. is their own original thought when in actuality , someone else has already thought of it , resulting in accidental plagiarism. In order to prevent this, it would require mental scanning to avoid replicating the thought as one's own. However, this slows down the quick retrieval of memory needed in daily life, such as in conversation. This has seen to occur in the music industry and has the implication of copyright infringement over songs, as well as in the formation of scientific research ideas.
Cryptomnesia Cryptomnesia occurs when an individual is certain that a certain word, idea, song, etc. is their own original thought when in actuality it was retrieved from memory without their knowledge , resulting in accidental plagiarism. In order to prevent this, source monitoring is required to avoid attributing the thought as one's own. However, this slows down the quick retrieval of memory needed in daily life, such as in conversation. This has seen to occur in the music industry and has the implication of copyright infringement over songs, as well as in the formation of scientific research ideas.
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, someone else has already thought of it
it was retrieved from memory without their knowledge
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it would require mental scanning to avoid replicating
source monitoring is required to avoid attributing