Collaboration changes both the content and the structure of memory: Building the architecture of shared representations

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1570-1584

  Congleton, Adam R ^a   Rajaram, Suparna ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative inhibition; Collective memory; Retrieval disruption; Shared memory; Shared retrieval organization

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84905166706     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035974     Document Type: Article

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