Baddeley revisited: The functional approach to autobiographical memory

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1050-1058

  Bluck, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; COGNITION; EDITORIAL; EMOTION; FALSE MEMORY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 70449418002     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1609     Document Type: Editorial

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