Remembering what we did: How source misattributions arise from verbalization, mental imagery, and pictures

Applied Memory

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 213-234

  Henkel, Linda A ^a   Carbuto, Michelle ^a  

^a FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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