Forgetting in memory models: Arguments against trace decay and consolidation failure

Forgetting

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 49-75

  Brown, Gordon D A ^a,b   Lewandowsky, Stephan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203851647     Document Type: Chapter

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