Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 8 , Pages 1065-1068 , September 2010

Scriptwriter's amnesia: Autobiographical memory loss in the documentary film Unknown White Male (2005)

  • Peter A. Kempster

      Affiliations

    • Neurosciences Department, Monash Medical Centre and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Helene L. Roberts

      Affiliations

    • Neurosciences Department, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia

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PII: S0010-9452(10)00054-7

doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.01.010

Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 8 , Pages 1065-1068 , September 2010

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