Specificity of memory: Implications for individual and collective remembering

Memory in Mind and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 83-112

  Schacter, Daniel L ^a   Gutchess, Angela H ^b   Kensinger, Elizabeth A ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511626999.006     Document Type: Chapter

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