Children's category structure and false memories

Psychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 178-192

  Chiang, Wen Chi ^a   Chiu, Chia Hui ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Category structure; False memory; List learning paradigm; Memory development

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846420652     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: 13475916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2117/psysoc.2006.178     Document Type: Article

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