Effects of Age and Self-Performance on Memory for Who Did What.
Objectives This research tested whether performing an action themselves leads young and older adults to false memory for having seen that action performed by another person. It also tested whether observing another person perform an action leads to false memory for self-performance of that action. M...
| Publicado en: | Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences Vol. 77; no. 3; pp. 472 - 482 |
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Mar2022
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