How we forget may depend on how we remember

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 26-36

  Sadeh, Talya ^a   Ozubko, Jason D ^a   Winocur, Gordon ^a   Moscovitch, Morris ^a  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decay; Familiarity; Forgetting; Hippocampus; Interference; Recollection

Indexed keywords

DECAY; FAMILIARITY; FORGETTING; HIPPOCAMPUS; RECOLLECTION;

WAVE INTERFERENCE;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

BRAIN INJURY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NEUROIMAGING; RECOGNITION; REVIEW;

DECAY; FAMILIARITY; FORGETTING; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERFERENCE; RECOLLECTION;

HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84890432107     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.10.008     Document Type: Review

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