Aging, retrograde amnesia, and the binding problem for phonology and orthography: A longitudinal study of "hippocampal amnesic" H.M.

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 298-333

  MacKay, Donald G ^a   James, Lori E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PHONETICS; READING; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VELOCITY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036978990     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/anec.9.4.298.8774     Document Type: Article

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