Children's Memory for Televised Events

Developmental Spans in Event Comprehension and Representation: Bridging Fictional and Actual Events

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 271-291

  Lorch, Elizabeth Pugzles ^a   Sanchez, Rebecca Polley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315044934-15     Document Type: Chapter

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