When true recognition suppresses false recognition: Evidence from amnesic patients

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 668-679

  Schacter, Daniel L ^a,d   Verfaellie, Mieke ^b   Anes, Michael D ^c   Racine, Carrie ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

AGED; ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDER; ALCOHOLISM; AMNESIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0031772963     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892998563086     Document Type: Article

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