Memory distortion: An adaptive perspective

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 467-474

  Schacter, Daniel L ^a   Guerin, Scott A ^a   St Jacques, Peggy L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PROCESS; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORIES; COGNITIVE PROCESS; MEMORY DISTORTIONS; NEURO-IMAGING;

SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FALSE MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INFORMATION; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MEMORY DISTORTION; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; RECOGNITION; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; SIMULATION; SLEEP; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COGNITION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROIMAGING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 80053130947     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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