Are false memories more difficult to forget than accurate memories? The effect of retention interval on recall and recognition

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1054-1064

  Seamon, John G ^a   Luo, Chun R ^a   Kopecky, Jonathan J ^a   Price, Catherine A ^a   Rothschild, Leeatt ^a   Fung, Nicholas S ^a   Schwartz, Michael A ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RESEARCH; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036817793     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194323     Document Type: Article

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