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Otgaar, H., Peters, M. and Howe, M. L. (2012). Dividing Attention Lowers Children's but Increases Adults' False Memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(1), pp. 204-210. doi: 10.1037/a0025160

Dewhurst, S., Howe, M. L., Berry, D. M. and Knott, L. (2012). Test-induced priming increases false recognition in older but not younger children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111(1), pp. 101-107. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.08.006

Knott, L., Dewhurst, S. and Howe, M. L. (2012). What Factors Underlie Associative and Categorical Memory Illusions? The Roles of Backward Associative Strength and Interitem Connectivity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(1), pp. 229-239. doi: 10.1037/a0025201

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Book Section

Otgaar, H., Houben, S. and Howe, M. L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5747-5571 (2018). Methods of Studying False Memory. In: Research methods in human memory. . New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138217959