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Eliciting adults’ earliest memories: Does it matter how we ask the question?

Fiona Jack University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Harlene Hayne University of Otago, Dunedin, New ZealandCorrespondenceE-mail [email protected]
Pages 647-663 | Received 24 Oct 2006, Published online: 18 Jul 2007

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Carole Peterson. (2021) What is your earliest memory? It depends. Memory 29:6, pages 811-822.
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