Spontaneous confabulators fail to suppress currently irrelevant memory traces

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 677-681

  Schnider, Armin ^a   Ptak, Radek ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFABULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MEMORY; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MEMORY;

AMNESIA; BRAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CONFUSION; HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033363310     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/10236     Document Type: Article

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