Twenty years after Baddeley (1988): Is the study of autobiographical memory fully functional?

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1193-1208

  Pillemer, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EMOTION; HUMAN; NOTE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SELF ESTEEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; WELLBEING;

EID: 70449362030     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1619     Document Type: Note

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