Evidence that nonconscious processes are sufficient to produce false memories

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 210-218

  Cotel, Sivan C ^a   Gallo, David A ^b   Seamon, John G ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

False recognition without identification; Nonconscious activation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE MEMORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MENTAL RECALL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40749113670     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.01.009     Document Type: Article

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