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The title of this lecture is intended to have two meanings, one having to do with our sensitivity as participants in this Advanced Studies Institute (ASI) and the other having to do with the concept of sensitivity in signal detection theory and its application to the issue of memory work and recovered memories. I shall start with some comments on the former and finish up with the latter, with a discussion of research on memory suggestibility in between.
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Lindsay, D.S., Briere, J. (1997). Increasing Sensitivity. In: Read, J.D., Lindsay, D.S. (eds) Recollections of Trauma. NATO ASI Series, vol 291. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2672-5_1
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