The phonological short term store-rehearsal system: Patterns of impairment and neural correlates

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 795-812

  Vallar, Giuseppe ^a   Di Betta, Anna Maria ^b   Silveri, Maria Caterina ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Phonological short term store; Rehearsal process; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHONETICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LEARNING DISORDERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030906342     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(96)00127-3     Document Type: Article

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