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Xinyuan Zhang1,2, Lijuan Wang1,2

  • 1School of Psychology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.

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Action memoryenactment effectmotor representationretrieval-induced forgetting effectsemantic representationsubject-performed tasks

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