Are animacy effects in episodic memory independent of encoding instructions?

Memory

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 2-18

  Gelin, Margaux ^a   Bugaiska, Aurélia ^a   Méot, Alain ^b   Bonin, Patrick ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BOURGOGNE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

animacy; Episodic memory; evolutionary psychology

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949222828     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2015.1117643     Document Type: Article

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