Can We Elicit Involuntary Autobiographical Memories in the Laboratory?

Involuntary Memory

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 127-152

  Ball, Christopher T ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical experiences; Autobiographical memories; Human memory; Involuntary memory; Word association task

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889459471     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774069.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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