Do chronic alcoholics have intact implicit memory? An ERP study

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 457-473

  Zhang, Xiao Lei ^a,b   Begleiter, Henri ^a   Porjesz, Bernice ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Alcoholics; ERP; Implicit memory; Picture; Priming; Word

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0342618576     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-4694(97)00044-8     Document Type: Article

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