More than a feeling: Pervasive influences of memory without awareness of retrieval

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 193-207

  Voss, Joel L ^a   Lucas, Heather D ^b   Paller, Ken A ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Explicit memory; Familiarity; Implicit memory; Recollection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FAMILIARITY MEMORY; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEMORY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; RECOGNITION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84861678991     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2012.674935     Document Type: Article

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