Routes to remembering: The brains behind superior memory

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 90-95

  Maguire, Eleanor A ^a   Valentine, Elizabeth R ^b   Wilding, John M ^b   Kapur, Narinder ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0037223351     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn988     Document Type: Article

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