Learning and recall of story content and spatial location after unilateral temporal-lobe excision in children and adolescents

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 16-26

  Hepworth, Sandra ^a   Smith, Mary Lou ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; RECALL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0038639207     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/chin.8.1.16.8718     Document Type: Article

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