Remembering the past and imagining the future: Selective effects of an episodic specificity induction on detail generation

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 285-298

  Madore, Kevin P ^a   Schacter, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detail generation; Episodic memory; Episodic specificity induction; Future thinking; Word comparison

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957435177     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.999097     Document Type: Article

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