What's behind crashing memories? Plausibility, belief and memory in reports of having seen non-existent images

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1333-1341

  Smeets, Tom ^a   Telgen, Sebastian ^a   Ost, James ^b   Jelicic, Marko ^a   Merckelbach, Harald ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BELIEF AND MEMORY QUESTIONNAIRE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CRASHING MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE;

EID: 70449336417     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1544     Document Type: Article

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