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Features of autobiographical memory: theoretical and empirical issues in the measurement of flashbulb memory

Antonietta Curci1, Tiziana Lanciano

  • 1University of Bari, Department of Psychology, Piazza Umberto I, 1, 70121 Bari, Italy. a.curci@psico.uniba.it

The Journal of General Psychology
|April 9, 2009
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