Forgetting due to retroactive interference: A fusion of Müller and Pilzecker's (1990) early insights into everyday forgetting and recent research on anterograde amnesia

Cortex

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 616-634

  Dewar, Michaela T ^a   Cowan, Nelson ^b   Sala, Sergio Della ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterograde amnesia; Forgetting; History of neuroscience; Memory; Retroactive interference

Indexed keywords

ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; COGNITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPATHOLOGY; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBALIZATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 34447336151     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70492-1     Document Type: Article

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