Errata

Mind Hacks

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The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
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Page xiv
Andy Brown's bio

pho tographer
->
photographer

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page xxi
+5

what's going on inside own heads
->
what's going on inside their own heads

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page xxvi
-1

understanding has chanced.
->
understanding has changed.

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page xix
4th paragraph


Should read "The information transformations in the brain are made yet more complicated by the constraints...."

Anonymous  Feb 05, 2009  Feb 01, 2009
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Page xvi
Second paragraph


Changed author bio to:

Vaughan Bell is a clinical and research psychologist interested in understanding brain injury, mental distress and psychological impairment. He's currently at the Departmento de Psiquiatr?a in the Universidad de Antioquia and the Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Pa?l, in Medell?n, Colombia, where he's a visiting professor. He's also a visiting research fellow at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. (http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/?go=10947)

Anonymous  Feb 06, 2009  Feb 01, 2009
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Page book
Throughout entire book


p.xiv:

http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/members/Bird448/
should be
http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk

http://www.christianjarrett.btinternet.co.uk
should be
http://www.psychologywriter.org.uk/

http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/people/profiles/suater_disa.htm
should be
http://www.mpi.nl/Members/DisaSauter


p.xv:

http://www.shef.ac.uk.spinsn/
should be
http://www.shef.ac.uk/spinsn/


p.xvi:

http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/home/bellv1
should be
http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=10947


Acknowledgements

http://moin.sourceforge.net
should be
http://moinmo.in/


p.xxii:

http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.html [please delete the whole parenthetical clause which this link is part of]


p.15:

http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/mainmenu.html
should be
http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu


p.21:

http://www.foresight.gov.uk/cognitive.html
should be
http://www.foresight.gov.uk

http://members.aol.com/Bio50/LecNotes/lecnot11.html
[please delete after "...electrical signals on..." to "...the Neuroscience for Kids site..." ie removing the entire text reference and URL for the broken link ]


p.22:

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical
/pubs/NINDS_Neuron.htm
should be
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brain_basics/ninds_neuron.htm


p.27:

http://www.cs.uta/fi/~jh/homonculus.html
should be
http://www.cs.uta.fi/~jh/homunculus.html


p.29:

http://owen.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=87494&cat=6
should be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sensory_and_motor_homunculi.jpg


p.40:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/peripheral_vision.html
should be
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/peripheral_vision/


p.42:

http://www.awpa.asn.au/tipstrix/eyeball1.htm
[please delete this bullet]

http://www.awpa.asn.au/tipstrix/eyeball2.htm
[please delete this bullet]

http://webvision.med.utuh.edu/facts.html
[please delete this bullet]


p.45:

http://www.poynter.org/eyetrack
should be
http://www.poynterextra.org/eyetrack2004/


http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/e/l/elm173/schlwork/semester3/psych/complete.htm
[please delete this bullet]


p.49:

http://www.exploratorium.org/snacks/cheshire_cat.html
should be
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/cheshire_cat/


p.63:

http://www.kyb.tue.mpg.de/links/demo.html
should be
http://www.kyb.tue.mpg.de/bu/demo/index.html


p.66:

http://gandalf.psych.umn.edu/~kersten/kersten-lab/images/kersten-shadow-cine.mov
should be
http://gandalf.psych.umn.edu/~kersten/kersten-lab/images/kersten-shadow-cine.MOV


p.89:

http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~kreisman/phi/index.html
should be
http://www.yorku.ca/eye/colorphi.htm


p.91:

http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/homepage/eagleman/flashlag/
should be
http://neuro.bcm.edu/eagleman/flashlag/


p.92:

http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/homepage/eagleman/flashlag/r1.html
should be
http://neuro.bcm.edu/eagleman/flashlag/demos/r1.mpg


p.93:

http://fisio.icb.usp.br/~vinicius/Public_pdf/Baldo_Ranvaud_Morya.pdf
should be
http://fisio.icb.usp.br/~vinicius/publications/Baldo_Ranvaud_Morya%202002%20.pdf


p.106:

http://www.sparknotes.com/psychology/cognitive/perception/section1.html [please delete this bullet, and thus the 'See Also' heading]


p.108:

http://neurodyn.umsl.edu/~simon/sr.html
should be
http://www.umsl.edu/~neurodyn/projects/vsr.html


p.117:

http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/readinglists/p5mcm-2.html
[please delete this endnote (and hence the reference to it in the body text too)]


p.118:

http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/finstlab/mot.mov
should be
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/finstlab/motMovies/mot.mov

http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/finstlab/mot-occ-occlusion.mov
should be
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/finstlab/motMovies/mot-occ-occlusion.mov

http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/finstlab/mot-occ-virtocc.mov
should be
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/finstlab/motMovies/mot-occ-virtocc.mov


p.119:

http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/finstlab/mot-occ-implosion.mov
should be
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/finstlab/motMovies/mot-occ-implosion.mov


p.123:

http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/finstlab/ZPPublications.htm
should be
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/faculty/pylyshyn.html


p.129:

http://www.spymuseum.org/games/mole.html
[please delete this endnote and subscript to it in the body text]


p.130:

http://www.flashreader.com
[please delete this url and the sentence it is part of]


p.135:

http://www.mindhacks.com/book/44/changeblindness.gif
should be
http://www.mindhacks.com/book/40/changeblindness.gif


p.142:

http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~psmfed/papers/np.html
should be
http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~psmfed/


p.154:

http://www.tonmeister.ca/main/textbook/psychoacoustics/06.html
should be
http://www.tonmeister.ca/main/textbook/


p.155:

http://physics.mtsu.edu/~wmr/julianna.html
should be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_fundamental


p.160:

http://www.hei.org/research/depts/aip/audiodemos.htm
should be
http://www.hei.org/research/aip/audiodemos.htm

http://www.hei.org/research/depts/aip/increase_channels.mp3
should be
http://www.hei.org/research/aip/increase_channels.mp3


p.165:

http://psy.ucsd.edu/chip/pdf/Synaeth_JCS.pdf
should be
http://psy.ucsd.edu/chip/pdf/Synaesthesia%20-%20JCS.pdf


p.170:

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/
should be
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/home.html


p.174:

http://neuro.caltech.edu/~lshams/demo.html
should be
http://shamslab.psych.ucla.edu/demos/
please delete the pinned note which starts "On Ladan Sham's page"


p.176:

http://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/xmodal/default.htm
should be
http://psyweb.psy.ox.ac.uk/xmodal/default.htm


p.186:

http://www.mpi.nl/world/persons/private/ardi/Rts.htm
should be
http://www.nici.ru.nl/~ardiroel/Rts.htm


p.188:

http://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/xmodal/default.htm
should be
http://psyweb.psy.ox.ac.uk/xmodal/default.htm


p.198:

http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/faculty/pcarruthers/Cognitive-language.htm
should be
http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/Faculty/pcarruthers/

http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/faculty/pcarruthers/BBS-reply.htm
should be
http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/Faculty/pcarruthers/BBS-reply.htm


p.230:

http://www.macalester.edu/~psych/whathap/UBNRP/Split_Brain/Split_Brain_Consciousness.html
[please change "it was even claimed " to "some even claimed" and delete the URL and brackets]

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.btinternet.com/~neuronaut/webtwo_features_leftbrain.html
should be
http://www.dichotomistic.com/mind_readings_left%20vs%20right%20brain.html

http://members.aol.com/sakrug/dualbrain.html
[please rewrite from "New Theories of Expression" so that remainder reads "Workings of Split Brain Challenge Notions of How Language Evolved " an article by Sandra Blakeslee archived on the New York Times website (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/sandra_blakeslee/index.html)"


p.238

http://ams.allenpress.com/pdfserv/i1520-0477-080-07-1385.pdf [please delete this URL and the brackets]


p.250:

http://ams.allenpress.com/pdfserv/i1520-0477-080-07-1385.pdf [please delete this URL and the brackets]


p.256:

http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/home/George_Mather/Motion/KDE.HTML
should be
http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/George_Mather/Motion/KDE.HTML


p.258:

http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/home/George_Mather/Motion/BM.HTML
should be
http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/George_Mather/Motion/BM.HTML

*Note: Already corrected in [7/08] printing.


p.262:

http://www.perceptionweb.com/perc0303/p5010.pdf
[please delete this URL and the brackets]


p.267:

http://www.carleton.ca/~warrent/210/michotte/michotte.html
should be
http://web.archive.org/web/20040226172716/http://www.carleton.ca/~warrent/210/michotte/michotte.html

http://www.carleton.ca/~warrent/210/michotte/michotte1.html
should be
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Discourse/Narrative/michotte-demo.swf

http://www.carleton.ca/~warrent/210/michotte/michotte2.html
should be
http://research.yale.edu/perception/causality/temporalGap.mov


p.268:

http://pantheon.yale.edu/~bs265/demos/causality.html
should be
http://www.yale.edu/perception/Brian/demos/causality.html


p.276:

http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/article.jsp?id=lwd613 [please delete this endnote and the link to it in the body text]


p.294:

http://www.health.uottawa.ca/hkgrad/mllab/cieffe.html
[please relate this endnote with "Ste-Marie, D. M., Clark, S. E., Findlay, L. C., & Latimer, A. E. (2004). High Levels of Contextual Interference Enhance Handwriting Skill Acquisition. Journal of Motor Behavior, 36(3), 115-126."]


p.303:

http://www.keeslau.com/TomWaitsSupplement/Lyrics/common.htm
should be
http://www.tomwaitslibrary.com/lyrics-common.html


p.315:

http://www.elitetrack.com/caffeine.pdf
please replace entire text of this endnote with "Nehlig, A., & Debry, G. (1994). Caffeine and sports activity: a review. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 15(5), 215-23."


p.338:

http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~tlc10/bio/pdf_articles/article_index.htm
[please delete URL and the sentence containing it (starts "This, and other papers by...")

p.339:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/m.j.eacott/cogmem3.txt
should be
http://idiolect.org.uk/docs/blog/negative_velten.txt and http://idiolect.org.uk/docs/blog/positive_velten.txt

scottd_oreilly  Feb 10, 2009  Feb 01, 2009
Other Digital Version
3
4th paragraph

Midway through the paragraph: "Small things have big effects and sometime big changes in circumstance
can produce...." It should be "sometimes,"

Anonymous    Jun 01, 2008
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Page 3
4th paragraph

Midway through the paragraph: "Small things have big effects and sometime big changes in circumstance
can produce...." It should be "sometimes,"

Anonymous    Jul 01, 2008
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Page 34
3rd paragraph

There is a slight confusion in the description of the visual pathway. The text says:
"... the right halves of the two retinas are dispatched to the left of the brain and
vice versa..." This is not quite correct; the right halves of the retina are
connected to the right side of the brain, and the left halves to the left side. It is
the right part of the visual field (which is absorbed by the left halves of the
retinas) that gets processed in the left brain hemisphere and vice versa.

Anonymous    Jan 01, 2010
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Page 35
+1


Before visual features have as been extracted from
->
Before visual features have been extracted from

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 38
+3

the oter type of cell
->
the other type of cell

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 67
+2

Focus-based cues (atmospheric perspective, object intensity, focu
->
Focus-based cues (atmospheric perspective, object intensity, focus)

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 78
Figure 2-22 caption

at a different length.
->
at a different depth.

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 79
+1, line 5

This means you when you see
->
This means when you see

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 83
+5

Adaptation is a general term for number of processes.
->
Adaptation is a general term for a number of processes.

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 90
+1, line 7

noticing the group is moving
->
noticing the ground is moving

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 95
+1, line 6


you brain
->
your brain

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 103
+1, line 8

If you'd like try an online version
->
If you'd like to try an online version

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 103
+2, line 2

seminal experiments on mentally rotation
->
seminal experiments on mental rotation

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 104
+2, line 4

imagine yourself mental rotating around a display
->
imagine yourself mentally rotating around a display

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 107
-1

anything more that 2 m away
->
anything more than 2 m away

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 108
-2

http://neurodyn.umsl.edu/~simon/sr.html
->
http://neurodyn.umsl.edu/sr/

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 113
+3

The difference between the two sets of bars is that the one on the left is within
the resolution of visual selective attention because it's spread out, while the one on
the right is too crowded with detail.

->

The difference between the two sets of bars is that the one on the right is within
the resolution of visual selective attention because it's spread out, while the one on
the left is too crowded with detail.

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 114
+1

righthand side set of bars
->
lefthand side set of bars

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 135
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www.mindhacks.com/book/44/changeblindness.gif
->
www.mindhacks.com/book/40/changeblindness.gif

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 138
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wasn't being activity discarded by the brain.
->
wasn't being actively discarded by the brain.

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 170
-2

conservations in loud bars.
->
conversations in loud bars.

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 171
+1, line 3

wouthit porbelm.
->
wouthit a porbelm.

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 190
-1

(and originally published in 1976, makes
->
(and originally published in 1976), makes

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 212
-2 (swapped all references to 'left' and 'right')

In the left hand, participants
->
In the right hand, participants

AND

to the palm of the right hand.
->
to the palm of the left hand.

AND

Movement of the participant's left hand
->
Movement of the participant's right hand

AND

participant's left hand the touch sensation on the right palm
->
participant's right hand the touch sensation on the left palm

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 213
+1

touch stimulus movements of the left hand.
->
touch stimulus movements of the right hand.

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 223
+3

Negative numbers mean right-handedness, positive numbers mean left-handedness.
->
Positive numbers mean right-handedness, negative numbers mean left-handedness.

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 225
End Notes, Note No. 6

Annuls of the New York
should be:
Annals of the New York

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 228
last line

the letter A made of up
->
the letter A made up of

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 240
-2

must be over 21 to drink beer.
->
must be 21 or over to drink beer.

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 251
+3

we have to gues.
->
we have to guess.

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 258
+1, last lines

we a get vivid perception
->
we get a vivid perception

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 283
Table 9-2, item 6

FAL_
->
FLA_

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 284
+1, line 3

and spe_.
->
and fla_.

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 292
+1

See also
* Anderson, M. C., & Green, C. (2001). Suppressing unwanted memories by
executive control. Nature, 410(6826), 366-369.
* Barclay, C. R., & Wellman, H. M. (1986). Accuracies and inaccuracies
in autobiographical memories. Journal of Memory and Language, 25, 93-103.

->

4. Anderson, M.C., & Green, C. (2001). Suppressing unwanted memories by
executive control. Nature, 410(6826), 366-369.
See Also
* Barclay, C. R., & Wellman, H. M. (1986). Accuracies and inaccuracies
in autobiographical memories. Journal of Memory and Language, 25, 93-103.

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 296
-2

entangled with on another
->
entangled with one another

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 297
+2, last sentence

shift and recombine independent of the content.
->
shift and recombine separately from the content.

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 304
+4

The are several reasons
->
There are several reasons

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007
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Page 325
+2

edges if your mouth
->
edges of your mouth

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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2007