Higher-order associative learning in amnesia: Evidence from the serial reaction time task

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 522-533

  Curran, Tim ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0030742376     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1997.9.4.522     Document Type: Article

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