False memories in highly superior autobiographical memory individuals

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

Volumn 110, Issue 52, 2013, Pages 20947-20952

  Patihis, Lawrence ^a   Frenda, Steven J ^a   LePort, Aurora K R ^a,b   Petersen, Nicole ^a,b   Nichols, Rebecca M ^a   Stark, Craig E L ^a,b   McGaugh, James L ^a,b   Loftus, Elizabeth F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crashing memories; DRM; Hyperthymesia; Suggestion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FALSE MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 84891362735     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314373110     Document Type: Article

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