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Book review: The whole spectrum of current memory research. COGNITIVE MODELS OF MEMORY. Martin A. Conway (Ed.). Psychology Press, Hove, East Sussex, 1997. No. of pages: 369. ISBN 0-86377-487-3. Price: £39.95 (hardback).

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
68 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
0888-4080

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✦ Synopsis

Computational modelling and cognitive neuroscience represent two of the most important developments to emerge in recent years in the study of human memory, but despite their

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