Factors that influence the generation of autobiographical memory conjunction errors

Memory

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 204-222

  Devitt, Aleea L ^a   Monk Fromont, Edwin ^a   Schacter, Daniel L ^b   Addis, Donna Rose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; False memory; Imagination; Memory conjunction error; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84948066970     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2014.998680     Document Type: Article

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