First words and first memories

Cognition

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-32

  Morrison, Catriona M ^a   Conway, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Amnesia; Autobiographical; Childhood memories; Concepts; Episodic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RESPONSE TIME; WORD RECOGNITION;

CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952887282     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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