Impaired word-stem priming in patients with temporal-occipital lesions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1087-1092

  Nielsen Bohlman, Lynn ^a   Ciranni, Michael ^b   Shimamura, Arthur P ^b   Knight, Robert T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit memory; Lexical memory; Posterior neocortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0030758176     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00036-5     Document Type: Article

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