The fSAM Model of False Recall

Psychological Review

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 954-993

  Kimball, Daniel R ^a   Smith, Troy A ^a   Kahana, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

associative memory; false memory; memory model; search of associative memory (SAM); semantic memory

Indexed keywords

DEFENSE MECHANISM; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

EID: 36048970071     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.114.4.954     Document Type: Article

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