Word priming with brief multiple presentation technique: Preservation in amnesia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 611-621

  Beauregard, Mario ^a,b,d   Chertkow, Howard ^a,b,c   Gold, David ^a,b   Karama, Sherif ^a,b   Benhamou, Judith ^a,b   Babins, Leonard ^b   Faucher, Andrée ^e  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e Department of Psychology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Implicit memory; Korsakoff's syndrome; Word priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MALE; MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDER; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030915236     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(96)00108-X     Document Type: Article

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