False recognition in younger and older adults: Exploring the characteristics of illusory memories

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 838-848

  Norman, Kenneth A ^a,b   Schacter, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030659149     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211328     Document Type: Article

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