Recency effect in anterograde amnesia: Evidence for distinct memory stores underlying enhanced retrieval of terminal items in immediate and delayed recall paradigms

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 177-184

  Carlesimo, Giovanni A ^a,b,c   Marfia, G A ^a   Loasses, A ^b   Caltagirone, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Memory; Recency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; PHONETICS; RECALL; TIME; AMNESIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029662296     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0028-3932(95)00100-X     Document Type: Article

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