A specific role for the human amygdala in olfactory memory

Learning and Memory

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 319-325

  Buchanan, Tony W ^a   Tranel, Daniel ^a   Adolphs, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMELL;

EID: 0142089976     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.62303     Document Type: Article

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