Memory for time: How people date events

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 138-147

  Janssen, Steve M J ^a   Chessa, Antonio G ^a   Murre, Jaap M J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; TIME PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; INTERNET; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745958502     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193393     Document Type: Article

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