Erroneous memories arising from repeated attempts to remember

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 26-46

  Henkel, Linda A ^a  

^a FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

False memory; False recall; Hypermnesia; Repeated tests; Source monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347031279     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2003.08.001     Document Type: Article

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