Impairing existing declarative memory in humans by disrupting reconsolidation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9309-9313

  Chan, Jason C K ^a,b   LaPaglia, Jessica A ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eyewitness memory; Forgetting; Human memory; Misinformation effect; Testing effect

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CONFUSION; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RETRIEVAL RELEARNING AMNESIA;

EYEWITNESS MEMORY; FORGETTING; HUMAN MEMORY; MISINFORMATION EFFECT; TESTING EFFECT;

HUMANS; IOWA; LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84878728633     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218472110     Document Type: Article

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