Decoupling semantic and associative information in false memories: Explorations with semantically ambiguous and unambiguous critical lures

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-28

  Hutchison, Keith A ^a   Balota, David A ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative; False memory; Homograph; Priming; Recall; Recognition; Semantic

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144325031     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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