Autobiographical memories prime semantic memories on conceptual implicit memory tasks.
Research has shown that the activation of semantic memories leads to the activation of autobiographical memories. Known as semantic-to-autobiographical memory priming, it has been argued that this form of priming reflects the functional role that autobiographical memory has in semantic processing. I...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 233 - 244 |
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