What can false memory tell us about memory impairments in Alzheimer's disease?

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 55, Issue 35, 2010, Pages 3989-3997

  Zhang, Fan ^a   Geng, Hai Yan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease (AD); associative memory illusions; false memories; fluency effect; source monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650217686     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-010-4164-6     Document Type: Review

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