Adaptive Memory: Evolutionary Constraints on Remembering

Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory

Volumn 53, Issue C, 2010, Pages 1-32

  Nairne, James S ^a  

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EID: 84865356947     PISSN: 00797421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-7421(10)53001-9     Document Type: Chapter

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