Learning facts from fiction

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 519-536

  Marsh, Elizabeth J ^a,b   Meade, Michelle L ^a   Roediger III, Henry L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

False memory; Fiction; Illusory truth; Source monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242402271     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-596X(03)00092-5     Document Type: Article

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