Spatial memory deficits in patients with unilateral damage to the right hippocampal formation

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-24

  Abrahams, S ^a   Pickering, A ^b   Polkey, C E ^c   Morris, R G ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c King's Neurosciences Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allocentric space; Hippocampus; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Temporal lobe resection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MAZE TEST; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0031060680     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(96)00051-6     Document Type: Article

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