What people believe about how memory works: A representative survey of the U.S. population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Simons, Daniel J ^a   Chabris, Christopher F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; IDENTITY; MALE; MEMORY; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL BELIEF; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES; WITNESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EXPERT WITNESS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED;

AMNESIA; CULTURE; DATA COLLECTION; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79961058498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022757     Document Type: Article

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