Adaptive memory: Ancestral priorities and the mnemonic value of survival processing

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-22

  Nairne, James S ^a   Pandeirada, Josefa N S ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Evolution; Memory; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LONG TERM MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SURVIVAL;

EID: 77952742269     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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