Forgetting due to retroactive interference in amnesia: Findings and implications

Forgetting

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 185-209

  Dewar, Michaela ^a   Cowan, Nelson ^b   Della Sala, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203851647     Document Type: Chapter

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