Is implicit learning spared in amnesia? Rule abstraction and item familiarity in artificial grammar learning

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2185-2197

  Channon, Shelley ^a   Shanks, David ^a   Johnstone, Theresa ^a   Vakili, Kian ^a   Chin, Jasmine ^a   Sinclair, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Implicit learning; Memory; Non declarative learning; Procedural learning

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; RECALL; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMNESIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036384051     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00037-4     Document Type: Article

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