Out of one’s mind: A study of involuntary semantic memories

2003/08/07 by Lia Kvavilashvili, George Mandler · 271 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Autobiographical memory #Childhood amnesia #Childhood memory #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Creativity in Education and Neuroscience #Identity, Memory, and Therapy #Linguistics #Memory Processes and Influences #Priming (agriculture) #Psychology #Recall #Semantic feature #Semantic memory

paper · open access · doi:10.1016/s0010-0285(03)00115-4

published in Cognitive Psychology 48(1), 47-94 (Elsevier BV)

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