Mnemonic convergence in social networks: The emergent properties of cognition at a collective level

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 29, 2016, Pages 8171-8176

  Coman, Alin ^a   Momennejad, Ida ^a   Drach, Rae D ^b   Geana, Andra ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective memories; Emergent phenomena; Mnemonic reinforcement effect; Social networks; Socially shared retrieval induced forgetting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; MNEMONIC CONVERGENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; ADOLESCENT; COGNITION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SOCIAL NETWORKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978904036     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525569113     Document Type: Article

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