Exploring the role of repetition and sensory elaboration in the imagination inflation effect

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 630-640

  Thomas, Ayanna K ^a   Bulevich, John B ^b   Loftus, Elizabeth F ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL;

EID: 0037634156     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196103     Document Type: Article

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