Imagination inflation for action events: Repeated imaginings lead to illusory recollections

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 20-33

  Goff, Lyn M ^a   Roediger III, Henry L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL;

EID: 0031915314     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211367     Document Type: Article

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