On what we cannot learn from proximity data

Neuropsychology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 323-329

  Storms, Gert ^a   Dirikx, Trinette ^a   Saerens, Jos ^b   Verstraeten, Sonja ^b   De Deyn, Peter P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0037674908     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.17.2.323     Document Type: Review

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