Learning and retention of words and designs following excision from medial or lateral temporal lobe structures

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 963-973

  Jones Gotman, M ^a   Zatorre, R J ^a   Olivier, A ^a   Andermann, F ^a   Cendes, F ^a   Staunton, H ^b   McMackin, D ^b   Siegel, A M ^c   Wieser, H G ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Memory; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY; NEOCORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY;

AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOSURGERY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030809107     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00024-9     Document Type: Article

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