The wane of childhood amnesia for autobiographical and public event memories

Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 161-173

  Multhaup, Kristi S ^a   Johnson, Melissa D ^a   Tetirick, Jonathan C ^a  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; EXPLOSION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; SAMPLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AMNESIA; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PUBLIC SECTOR; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 14044275135     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09608210344000652     Document Type: Article

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