Impaired transverse patterning in human amnesia is a special case of impaired memory for two-choice discrimination tasks

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-9

  Reed, Jonathan M ^a,b,c   Squire, Larry R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0033037703     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.1.3     Document Type: Article

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