"Identify-to-reject": A specific strategy to avoid false memories in the DRM paradigm

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 252-265

  Carneiro, Paula ^a   Fernandez, Angel ^b   Diez, Emiliano ^b   Garcia Marques, Leonel ^a   Ramos, Tânia ^a   Ferreira, Mário B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

DRM paradigm; False memories; Identify to reject; Memory editing; Theme identifiability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECALL; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863588167     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0152-6     Document Type: Article

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