Children remember early childhood: Long-term recall across the offset of childhood amnesia

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 127-142

  Cleveland, Emily Sutcliffe ^a   Reese, Elaine ^b  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LIFE EVENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 38449118985     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1359     Document Type: Article

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