Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10458394 | Consciousness and Cognition | 2013 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
⺠Research on survival-related memory effects is confounded with self-referencing. ⺠We show that survival encoding scenarios only elicit a memory advantage when they are self-referential. ⺠This suggests the self is at the centre of memory biases, consistent with ecological accounts.
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Authors
Sheila J. Cunningham, Mirjam Brady-Van den Bos, Lucy Gill, David J. Turk,