Memory loss versus memory distortion: The role of encoding and retrieval deficits in Korsakoff patients' false memories

Memory

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 349-366

  Van Damme, Ilse ^a   d'Ydewalle, Géry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amnesia; DRM paradigm; Encoding deficit; Explicit recollection; Gist memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE MEMORY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; ASSOCIATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; DEFENSE MECHANISM; LEARNING; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

ADULT; AGED; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CUES; HUMANS; KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REPRESSION; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 68049126345     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210802680349     Document Type: Article

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