Depression and Memory: Are Impairments Remediable Through Attentional Control?

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 190-193

  Hertel, Paula T ^a  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84970672404     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.ep10770707     Document Type: Article

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10. For a review, see H.L. Roediger, III, and K.B. McDermott, Depression and implicit memory: A commentary, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 101, 587-591 (1992). Also notice that these paradigms ensured that words in Phase 1 were processed for meaning, unlike the perceptual rating task used by Hertel, note 8.
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