Visual Mementos: Reflecting Memories with Personal Data

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Brain Imaging Investigation of the Neural Correlates of Emotional Autobiographical Recollection
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Published on: August 26, 2011

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Alice Thudt, Dominikus Baur, Samuel Huron

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
    |November 4, 2015
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