On the susceptibility of adaptive memory to false memory illusions

Cognition

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 252-267

  Howe, Mark L ^a   Derbish, Mary H ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive memory; Associative memory; Encoding processes; False memory; Survival memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FALSE MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL PROCESSES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRESSION; SURVIVAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649191089     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.12.016     Document Type: Article

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