Does feigning amnesia impair subsequent recall?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-89

  Sun, Xue ^a   Punjabi, Paawan V ^a   Greenberg, Lucy T ^a   Seamon, John G ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; GUILT; LONG TERM MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; RECUMBENCY; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; AMNESIA, RETROGRADE; ATTENTION; CUES; CULTURE; DECEPTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62649099829     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.1.81     Document Type: Article

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