Autobiographical memories of specific social events for older and younger adults: Context dependency of the Memory Characteristics Questionnaire on recollection of 1970 and 2005 Japan World Expositions

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 182-194

  Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^a   Anderson, David ^b   Takahashi, Masanobu ^c  

^a KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c University of the Sacred Heart   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Autobiographical memory; Memory Characteristics Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860237943     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: 14685884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2011.00482.x     Document Type: Article

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