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In this study, mnemonic discrimination and generalization were assessed in individuals with vmPFC lesions using the Mnemonic Similarity Task (MST; Stark et al., 2013), which was designed to assess the ability to distinguish previously learned images of everyday objects (targets) from unstudied, highly similar images (lures) and dissimilar images (foils). Relative to controls, vmPFC-lesioned participants showed intact discrimination of lures from targets but a propensity to mistake similar lures for dissimilar foils, and were overly confident relative to their accuracy. This pattern of performance is suggestive of a failure to develop a conceptual knowledge framework to extract a gist from common items. 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